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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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60 Cooper Conrad :But you did go back to the AUTO. Yeah . I put ii; back in AUTO , you know , and then I called t hem, I think it was on the tape and I think I told them, I said, the S'f!litch is on AUTO . We're okay. Don ' t worry about it and then right aft er that we got up to this 240 or so in there and we realjzed that something was wrong and the heater was out and I guess we told them--We told them at Carnarvon that t he heater was out . Cooper Well, we checked at that time then on ·~he annneter on and off and on and off t hat on both manual and AUTO and it was obvious . Conrad And that ' s when we-- Cooper And it was coming down so rapidly that it looked like very shortly thereafter we were going t o have fuel Conrad cell stoppage.. We were getting below 200 and falling pretty fast and we had a big discussion between ourselves and we just made up our mind to forget the REP. We felt we were Cooper really in trouble. So we elected at that point to start rowering down because we knew that we were using fuel cells a t a very high rate . Conrad And we secured the Platform and Radar and everything else.
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