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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.
Conrad I don't bel ieve that Platform Mode was holding the t olerances it was supposed to. It was drifting a full degree, and it was supposed to hold better than t ha t . Cooper I t is supposed to hol d plus or minus half a degree . Conrad By drifting off in yaw a degree , it burned the whole time 1 degree off in yaw in the same direction . You see, that accounted for the sort of l arge out of-pl ane number; it was like 0.8 foot ier second that we got in to the out of pl ane. Okay, then we had a D-4/D- 7 at 17: 42:00, a 410 Band a 407 over Carnarvon; and it was not done . Cooper Tha t 's right; we didn ' t have a reticl e . Conrad Because the reticle pooped out . We thought the reticl e had burned out . It wasn ' t unti l l ater on after we were going to fix the reticle by putting t he auxiliary light in there that Gordo found that t here was a short in the cord when the cord was stretched , and that t he short wasn ' t i n the cord when the cord wasn ' t stretched , and that the sight was okay. That reminds me of another thing. Right af ter we got airborne I went to use the little auxil iary l ight down here . It was in the
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