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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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Conrad Cooper Conrad Cooper Conrad Cooper Conrad Cooper Conrad ~rqflDENTIA~ the same thing. You put something out in front of you and it would just disappear. Whew! It wouldn ' t sit in front of you. It would move from one side to the other of the spacecraft due to the rates you would build up. Yes, here's where we got into this business of the OAMS Heater- Off and ACME-Off and the C adapter to Command and the Scanners-Off and they wanted to up date the computer. We brought the IGS and the computer on and then we powered down again and this is-- One day 14 hours where this started. Yes , right in here . That was passing over Carnarvon . And then is where we brought up the second fuel cell . We brought back on-- Got the pump back on the line and then we got ready for our first big day over the States. Yes, that's a great da;y . Boy, we were busy though. We learned a lot . I tell you though , those passes over the states were really good. The third day was our best day as far as being organized. They gave us about the proper amount of experiments and we were well organized.--
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