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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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62 C Cooper Cooper Cooper Conrad Cooper Conrad That 1 s impossible. That thing wasn't that far away. It hung right in there. I think that 's the whole things . But 1 1 11 tell you there were two differnnt night sides we went into. Several- - Two different night sides- -well , I reaU y-- i t wouldn 1 t have surprised me if it had hit us. Me either. It seemed to me like it was a lot closer. That's what made me think that well, th? platform was aligned and I don't know what exactly happened. I did notice that it sort of climbed on us. So then I had the feeling that maybe it was doing sort of a figure eight type thing. That maybe we had fired it off up or down a little bit yoQ know. .And it was in three dimensions ; a little bi t out of plane working it's way around us , backing up and going a.head and coming back around because the darn thing was always there . It was there until the darn lights burned out on it. Anyti me we wanted to find it if you wanted to move t he spacecraft around you could find it out there . EOl"'lf!ltJEt ◄ =F hA. L
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