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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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75 with terrible pulse rates when we ' d hear somebody calling from down in that deep barrel , Gemini 5, Gemini 5, Gemini 5. Ha ,ha. Lights on all over the place trying to find the radio switch. Ha- ha. Out of a deep sleep . Cooper Okay. I think maybe if we'd just go down through here and hit these things that particularly-- Conrad Tell me where we are in time and then I'll look in here to see what notes there are in here . Cooper Well , and then we left these pretty well as we went through the flight plan here and then we left those pretty well-- Conrad Well , these are all the next day s o-- Cooper These things are all ready listed in there--I think were just mainly the things we wrote in here . Conrad These S-6 passes Cooper S-6 weather pass at 1 day 6 hours and 10 minutes . 1 day 7 hours 48 minutes 26 seconds . Sequence G8, we did that . That was the hurricane too wasn' t i t? And then we had another sequence on that -- the next trip around at 9 hours 22 minutes 49 seconds . We looked at it again. Then at 9 hours 27 minutes 33 seconds we had a sequence 208 and that was-- Conrad Man, we've got logs for the logs.
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