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This is a preliminary transcript of the Gemini V (GT-5) flight crew debriefing, prepared by NASA's Spacecraft Operations Branch, Flight Crew Support Division, and dated September 1, 1965. It records Cooper and Conrad's operational account from the debriefing held August 30 to September 1, 1965 at Cape Kennedy. Topics include countdown, window fogging, POGO vibration, fairing jettison debris, radio loss, reentry and recovery. Visual sightings are left for a later part of the debriefing.
From the source:Release of 2026-06-12 Incident: August 2 - September 2, 1965, Cape Kennedy, Florida. This document is a preliminary transcript (Part I) derived from voice recordings of the Gemini 5 flight crew technical debriefing. NASA conducted this debriefing between August 30, 1965, and September 2, 1965, at the Crew Quarters, Cape Kennedy, Florida.
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, CO► I F 1 DE NJ:1A t 57 thought everything was going perfect . The REP was moving just exactly out of plane away from us and it was moving at about the right velocity and then the mystery came. It just kept on going. Cooper Yeah. Conrad It kept right on going straight out, and- Cooper It wasn't slowing down very much. Conrad And I got over here on the graph and I kept reading the mileage and we were up to about 7 feet a second. It was leaving us , and I realized, I began to think , well gee, this is- That ' s when I was really convinced that the platform wasn't alined and we must have kicked it out some screwy way. Then it started to drift:~ us quite fast . It finally did peak out an -----------a~ he corner at some phenomenal dis ance , mile away from us , but drift aft quite rapid ent ) ...--n:-~---------;---:--:--:-----;------:-:--:;-,i"'T"--,-----,-----r-;-;:--:-:-- Cooper Conrad and .when we got to the nodal crossing time, it was behin~ ( us by a mile , according to the radar. Now this is all / on radar. And now , mind you, it ' s nighttime and it was right there. We could see it plain as day. Okay, let ' s see, we were at the-- Okay, that's when we got to this next screwy thing. was almost nine tenths of a
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