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Gemini 5 Technical Debriefing, Part I, 1965

National Aeronautics and Space Administration · 1965 · 223 pages · text from the file's own layer

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.

  • p. 142 …Cooper We wer e coming right over the Tibet- - the hi gh Tibet QWflO
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We never- - we always ran late on that . I ' d get the
nap, but I'd get it much later and that would cut
a l ittle bit into Gordo ' s sleep per iod and that
would wind up overlapping into my sleep period and
then we would both catch a nap . . . Gor do's napti me
which was just before Carnarvon .
Cooper I don ' t think we ever came over Carnarvon but what
we were asleep.
Conr ad The next morning we would both be asleeip . . . . but
Gordo ' s right. The meals--if we wc,uld like to
stop and talk about that . We did not E?ven get into
the left food box until the fourth day. We ate the
meals that were in the footwell . There! were two
stowage footwells to start with and th1:.t gave us
the two garbage bags that we always hac. out . In
other wor ds we always had two silver be.gs, food
bags , open that we could put garbage ir.--any kind
of garbage-- and we always kept two of t hose out, -
one on Gordo I s side and one on mine. ~'hen we ' d
actually collect more- -we ' d eat more me•als , but
we always ran with two of those out at least and
we ' d wind up with maybe two in each foctwell and
that's when we would restow at the end of that day.
What we did was put as much of the garl:,age as
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