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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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148 .€>MFt0ENTt. 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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