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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.
Cooper " Conrad Cooper Conrad Cooper Conrad Cooper Conrad 59eNftOf We never got the point where it crossed behind us be cause somewhere when it was about the 210 point was when we were out of fuel, of fuel cell o2. Yeah, well , you see, we went by Carnarvon-- And this was coming down just BALOOM BALCOM BALOOM BALCOM BALCOM. See, here we go . We went by Carnarvon. Here I was trying to figure out in here what was going on and what we were going to take out and everything and we went by Carnarvon and right here at Carnarvon and that's when Charlie .. . called up and says check your o2 heater switch to AUTO . Now I had seen it fall , had noticed that it had been falling and I had gone to the AUTO position when without even being told -- You had already gone to nanua.l. And then I was doing many other things and I decided it wasn ' t coming up and so I'd gone to manual and held it over there a couple times and sort of looked at it and -- That didn ' t work either. I must have kidded myself into thinking that I was getting something out of it, and then I forgot it again and then~-
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