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Gemini 5 Technical Debriefing, Part I, 1965

National Aeronautics and Space Administration · 1965 · 223 pages · text from the file's own layer

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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below us . That kind of startles you when you ::
realize they are 9ntering below you. It means
ve you.
This is when the exp imenters went out of their
minds . They handed us this flight pl8l1 you wouldn ' t
believe where they had 1, 2, 3,4,5 , 6,7,8,9,10 , 11 ,
12 , 13,14 , 15 , 16 ,17,18 , 19 , 20,21 22,23, no 22 experiments
they gave us to do in a row an they ir.volved
everything in the spacecraft anti we had gear all
over . You wouldn ' t believe it . I never had so
much junk--we went wild. That '/s when we called
up and said, "Hey, gang let ' s be a l i t·~le more
reasonable."
The other problem didn't list them
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Yes , that ' s right.
They put them in there and we had to keep skipping
around on them to get the sequential time on them
and that was a mess .
Now, what we did is we copied down in this book
and then we'd write it down at the proper time so
that we had it sequentially in the flight plan.
It worked out very well .
NFIDE

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