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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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64 in more time on other things . That something was going to go wrong-~ Conrad I felt every problem that we had I felt real good about the fact that we had either t he smarts t o lmow that it was straight forward-- It didn't take too long to figure out that that h1~ater was on one line, both heaters , and that we'd had a single point failure. And as a mat ter- of - fact we t ook the schematics out. Cooper And there's another argument for our ha-ring it;' for when it occured there wasn ' t anybody around to ask advice . Conrad I t was very straight forward to throw t he switches and look at the amp meter to see whethe:c you were getting anything out. There was no dou·:it in my mi nd that it had burned out and the sam,= daml thing with the thrusters. When we finally decided we had a problem with them we went through the ci rcuit breakers just like we did in th= trainer and it was obvious that number 7 was out and 8 went out and then the rest of them started getting sour. So, I think that all the training we had we were pretty well prepared.
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