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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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93 Conrad Cooper .,,... Conrad Cooper Conrad Cooper ·GONftf1 21 . 1 feet per second Delta P . Oh, that was our pre- burn stuff. At 2 days 17 hours 34 minutes and 31 seconds we had a maneuver load . Well , I have the whole thing here . We powered up the platform on day 2 at 15:50 with the plat form caged BEF, and at 16: 15 we alined BEF with the rate gyros on. At 16:45:00 the computer went on and we addressed 25 90201 , and apogee adjust maneuver was a t 16:50 : 17 . We translated forward to zero the IVI, so it was actually a retro burn . I mean we were BEF. We were using the aft-firing thrusters. Yes. We had a D-6 on the ship , and we didn't see it, at 2 days 16 hours 56 minutes and 49 seconds . We didn't see the ship. Then at 17:20 the second day we alined the platform SEF and we sat the computer up to address 25 00158 . We made an SEF burn, which was a phase adjust maneuver, at 17 : 34:58 . Now , that one we did in the Platform Mode and it didn't burn for schmaltz. The platform didn ' t hold it . It allowed us to get a little bit of left-right and up- down .
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