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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.
2 Cooper 1.6 Sounds Cooper Conrad Cooper Conrad 1. 7 Vibration Cooper right away. I thought we felt plenty cool the whole time. ECS was good. Never any problem with it . Sounds , I thought the only sounds tha·; we had that were abnormal we'd been warned about. When the prevalves opened, they were fairly loud and when the engines gimballed they were quite loud , and both of those we were aware of the fact that they would cause a lot of noise and vibrat:.on. There is something that really dings t he booster too when they start .. . . I don ' t--whet her they drop a platform away. It ' s before they start moving the gant ry. Just before they start lowering that erector. Boy, something really, like it really bangs tha t booster , I thought. I still don't know what it is , but , of course, we ' d been up there with the erector down twice before that so we were sort of e~tting used to those kind of sounds. Okay , vibrations we already covered tr.at . Sounds , vibrations.
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