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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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68 little calculations right here--finally we were off our graph up there, weren't we? Conrad Yes . Well , you ' ve got to realize that the graph ' s based on out of plane and this was the hypotenuse to the thing, but even so-- Cooper But s t i ll you 've got to-- Conrad It still went away more than it should have . Cooper Because you cosine angles were fairly 13mall in t here . Conrad It still went away more than it should have. Cooper I don't quite understand it. Conrad We 'll know what the platform--I presume they can t ell how well we had the platform al igned . Cooper But there again, there 's the f irst little horse shoe nail that throws the glitch in things. When that darn scanner screwed up right at the most crucial time . It probably had been screwing up all along , we just hadn't really caught it . I t really threw the glitch in right therEi at a point when it really shouldn't have. We ma~, have lucked out still , and gotten .it out right on the money and it may not have been the problem. I don't know, but anyway with the best we had to work with we got it out the best we could and it looked like =
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