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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.
149 possible back in the r i ght hand box. We completely emptied the right hand box at the beginning of the fl i ght and stowed the articles around the cockpit in those red bags that we had built for the back of the seat and they really worked well. On the top of the seat . I kept two meals always stowed i n the area that led to the right hand stowage box over my left shoulder . I kept my two meals there . Gordo normally kept his two down on either side of his helmet in the footwell area. We kept our garbage bags--our silver garbage bags down in there and the reason I say silver garbage bags is because those green ones that McDonnell made just didn ' t work at all. We never used them in the whole flight. Cooper They are no good at all . Conrad They tore up . Cooper They are hard to get into . They tear . The top- the way it puckers up there you have a hard time getting anything in and out of it . I finally used one over there to fasten that camera- -that 200 millimeter camera, that 35 mm camera. We put the lens down there so that it would hold--so that the L
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