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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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66 1':0 NEIDEbll IAJ. .. Cooper Conrad Cooper Steiner saying don't worry about that liq_uid : going through that heat exchanger . He said it will go through just fine . The one thing that I thought was that we might have dinged the tank with the REP but as long as the q_uantity stayed up there we were in pretty good shape , but I wasn't sure that we didn't just might have sorre sort of a hole back there and were just slowly leaking pressure even though the q_uantity-- That was one thing--we always worried E~bout that REP with that big diapole hanging out. If it skewed up a little going out what woulcl it wipe out going out . It just happened to be with a lot of that OAMS--fuel cell lines and all 'Ghat type stuff back there and that was one thing that always kind of concerned us about ejecting the REP now and then. So that was one thing we kept running )ver and wondering what i t had wiped out . Yes. That was the only thing that kept bothering me , but it held to 60 though and that was pretty good. Okay. Let's see boresight on REJ?,nodal crossing. We didn't get the nodal cropsing. I · sure wish we toNFll)Et~t1'1L
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