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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.
125 Cooper Conrad Cooper Conrad Cooper there - laughter . Yeah, ok, everything1 s fine (snoring) ( 1a,1g~+.er) . Talk about lonely--that •s when it really got bad. You really knew you were out in the no place. We just discussed one thing while you were out, was this window situation. You couldn't even begin to see out of Pete' s window when we launched. It was really terrible and it was in between those outside panes and glass . And my window between the outside sealed units and the inside unit of glass there was a bee - Oh, yeah , yeah, that stuff is on the inside of the outer pane. I ·don' t know how that got there. And inside these two outside units on my side in between those and the inside pane of glass there was a little bee and a fly and a whole bunch of flecks of dirt and odds and ends in there. And my window wasn ' t as frosted over as his.
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