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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 No, it worked very well .
Cooper Let ' s see we had an observation of the storm and some
... pictures there at 17 hours and 12 minutes still on
day 1. Oh, we brought the radar to stand-by to
warm things up there at 17 hours-- 16 hours
Conrad Radar temperature went down to 19 degrees.
Cooper 16 hours and 50 minutes-~it wa s the secondary
coolant loop that got so cold. They wanted us to
bring on some added heat source so we brought the
radar on to stand-by for quite a period of time
to warm things up , and let ' s see--
Conrad They wanted to warm the radar up , too . It got too col d .
Cooper Yes , that ' s right. What did we do in here .
Conrad That was S- 8, D- 13,
Cooper That was S-8, D- 13, and that didn't work out very well.
'That was too early. That was the one that was so
early in the morning.
Conrad It seems to me that's the first time we looked at
it and we saw the smoke.
Cooper Oh yes .
Cooper Now, let's see was it the first one or the second
that I saw and you didn 1 t see.
Conrad I don't know. I never saw it.

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