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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.
126 Conrad FCSD rep . Cooper Cooper Conrad Over the period of time, they both got a certain amount of little frosty scum on the outside of them and when we fired the scanner covers there were about foUT or five little gray flecks of etuff and debris just flew everywhere right in that period of time and four or five· little gray flecks came on the window. Heck, that's before launch isn't it? Oh, I didn ' t know that. Did it ever clear up? No . I think it was just unforg:i.veable. I think if they can I t do bette1· on windows than that they ought to just qt.it trying. I could see maybe having some El.lllount of debris-and then when you use the thruster s the debris would all show up again. We were on--here we are up here--t his med data. Day 4, 16 hours and that data - did. 16 hours 28 minutes - D-4, D- 7 , D-6 , 423b. Yeah that was the second missi:.e - which we didn I t get any track on -- ue saw - i'
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