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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.
70 Cooper Conrad Cooper Conrad Cooper Conrad Cooper Conrad Cooper Conrad FCSD Rep Conrad Cooper Conrad be gotten, Why don' t you bring the flight plan over here " and let's start down it. We might as well skip what he has in the flight plan here because it varies so from there on. From here on you can for get this flight plan . That ' s right . Right here . Where 's our little book of the fl i ght plan? I've got i t right here . Oh , okay . Okay. All this time we sweated out getting home and that ' s when we wound up-- here is where we s t arted on this flight plan, at 1 day a nd 02 hours, so that's 12 hour s after lift- off. We finally got back on A f light plan ani -- Yes , and that ' s the first thing we started to do was to power back up . One day. That's 24 hours . No . That one day remember we- We star ted that one day-- We went CEl' to 2400 Zulu and then tha t became day 1 , 00 hours and lift-off was 1400 Zulu. CON·rrD Et ◄ ifI,A. L~
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