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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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92 Conrad - - an S- 6 at 15: 45 -- Cooper You ' re ahead of where I was . Conrad Oh, I ' m sorry. Okay, we'll back up. D- 6 at 13 :41--46 . We got Tampico instead of Monterey beca-i;.se it was clouded in . Then we did the UHF No. 1, and we got this S- 5/S- 6 during our African pass- dicn ' t we? And we got the D- 4/D-7 over Kano . Wait a minute, I ' m not sure we got that one. Let me look in the log here. 4 : 20, no clouds over Kano , so we didn't get it. It was supposed to be cl oudy O'rer Kano . Cooper That ' s right . There were supposed to b1? clouds over Kano. It was supposed to be clouds we '~ere getting pi ctures of, and there weren't any clouis . Conrad Yes , it was clear. Then we had an S- 1 , which we did not do . We did the S- 1 later. That's when we went to platform power up and the computer on, and then we started a D- 6 at 15 : 16 . After D- 6 at 15: 16 was a number 20 , which, if I'm net mistaken , was supposed to be Waco ; and we got DaJlas instead because Waco was cloudy then . Yes , it was supposed to be James Connally and we took Dallaf1 instead, because Waco was clobbered. Cooper What ' s this I have here? That ' s your note there. r
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