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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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Conrad Okay, now we also wrote in these little screwy
ditties . This is where we kept the things if
they wanted us to power-up something or pull
one of their nutty tests that they dreareed up
in the middle of the night . We ' d write them down
just in order in which they came.
Cooper Do we just want to go right on down thrcugh here?
FCSD Rep Okay. Why don ' t we go right on down anc. list what
we did and then when we get in the experiment section
we can go into detail .
Cooper Okay. Where did we leave off here now. At--okay ,
one day 4 hours and 40 minutes . Let' s flee we
didn't do this--
Conrad No , we didn't do the cryogenic test . Tnt's right.
Cooper Then at 1 day 5 hours we did the S- 8 , I)..13, Connnand Pilot.
Conrad That's another thing. They had you doing these
things while one g.:;.y was asleep' and one guy was
awake . You wake up and have a briefing period it's
just a bunch of baloney. We were both awake
and when we took a test why we took it together
and got it out of the way.
Cooper l,'e ate together and slept together and took the
•.•. together. We'd been completely st~rtled

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