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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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C Cooper Conrad Cooper Conrad Cooper Conrad Cooper Conrad. See, the REP went straight out and kept on going. The REP goes straight out and then it just kept on going. It was slowing down very l ittle and just kept on going and going and going and going. And it never really stopped. What it d:Ld was it sorta, it sorta starting going off this way, you !mow, and it never got out to a node point wh~re you had a definite stopping range and a start back in again. Well , the range rate never got below a foo t per second . The range rate never decreased. You never got a decrease in range rate , but it just kept-it started drifting slowly of f the 270 line on back out, but it we·nt straight out the 270 line to a- - What was the range? Do you remember what the range was when it sti ll was out there? It went straight like relative motion to us would have looked like it went out looking down a plan form, if we were here. It looked like it went out like this and it slowly started doing this . Yeah. And it never did have a stop to it. It finally crossed behind us back in here someplace.
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