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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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Cooper From lift- off until 2400 hours the day of launch was elapsed t ime and s t arting a t tha t t ime we started calling it day one and then GM!'. Conrad Okay. So , we went through a l i ttle deal here where we started to power up and they let us tum- we'd been drifting hadn ' t we? Cooper Yes . I ' ll say. Conrad We turned up the AC , ACME inverter on and the ACME bias power on OAMS attitude on and we went t9 pulse and we were supposed to power back down again at 02 + 27 + 25. We were supposed to have this H2 purge a t 02 + 45 + 00 . Tha t was the first thing, they were just going to let us purge H we 2 didn't purge the o:xygen. Everybody was worried about that . Then we were on the flight plan and they gave us an update time for our first medical pass and we stayed- - ! think we took these vision tests , didn ' t we? Cooper Yes, we did. Conrad We just stayed right on the fli ght plan , had the vision tests , and I have a comment in here that at 01 days 04 hours and 32 minutes we saw our first meteor r e- enter . Cooper ~an , we saw a lot of those meteorites re- enter
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