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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.
Conrad FCSD Rep Conrad FCSD Rep Conrad • it went out in good fashion . I think we still would have been all right if we had gone ahead and done the rendezvous with no problem even if we had gotten a little out of plane with it we could have handled this later on. But, there again it made it difficult for Pete because it got him completely off his schedule , too . It got him late blowing the doors . Well , we s till were reasonably well on top of it . Let ' s see . We can skip all this REP s t uff . You got anything else you want to lmow about the radar? It would be best I think to go on through it and say what you did and didn ' t do so we can stay on this . Yes, well-- Use your flight plan. Well, we got as far--let ' s see, it says when on bore- sight read and record address 58 , 59 , and 69 and this was just before 2: 51 when we were supposed to have a reading to give back on the ground. This is the reading I got: 58 read -63. 8, 59 read 139 . 8 . The distance was-- address 69 was .89 miles and I got that at the t ime that it was supposed to
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