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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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JI 147FIDENT ~L Conrad Well , why don't we get ourselves down on the water? Stowage wise when we left the United Stat es on the last Cali fornia- Guaymas pass which occurred at-- it occurr ed around 7: 18: 40, something like that. We started our reentry stowage right then and there . Very early i n the game , because we wanted to make sur e that we had- - that was almost 20 some hours to reentry. Cooper First of all , at least once a day, we went through the entire cockpit and br ought everything up to completely clean configuration . Everything stowed and we had about a 2 day basis . We planned what meals we were going to need for the next 2 days and we would get these meals out , get them stowed in an easy- to- get- to place--around the footwell areas- generally i n the footwells back in our feet area and would restack and restow garbage and try and get it completely caught up on a day- to-day basi s , so that we didn ' t have a lot of garbage sitting around . Conrad We always did i t right after that California Guaymas l ast pass over the States starting out into the boondock area and this conflicted with the Pilot ' s naptime . That was my scheduled napti me . Of\lFIDENTI
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