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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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82 Flf)ENTIA .. the whole thing star ted to warm up . You could see the frost melt outside . Everything seei:ned t o go up. The fuel temperatures would go up , and t'.le whole ECS system would warm up, the cabin wouli warm up and everything. We were sitting there-- Conrad A slow drift or stabilized fl i ght-- Cooper When we wer e sitt ing t her e r eally spinning up, th:ings just got colder and colder and colder . :IJ"ow by spinning up I ' m talking about we got up )nee to 12 degrees per second. It wasn ' t any bother to us except visuall y . You just couldn ' t stan i to look at i t out the window. It just gave you 3uch an awful looki ng pi cture . Like you were in an inverted- upside down--wrong side up- -. So we fin~lly put the polar oid filter s up . . . the holes . Conrad We got completely i n the dark ther e . Cooper I didn ' t even want to look at what was ~)ing on . It was odd because before you could take a penci l and put it out here and it's the best attitu,ie indicator you had. If there ' s any little r ate goi:1g on at all the penci l would give it to you. You ca1 sit and hold it r i ght out in front of you and it's just like an arti f i cial horizon. It ' s the most be,mtiful-- or camera or whatever you ve out there it will do NFIDENTIAL ~
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