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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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150 Conrad Cooper Conrad bag would hold it in. Keep it from floating and then fasten the velcro upon the back of the maneuver controller. Now there was one thing that one green bag that I had originally had the REP plan stow in it. The REP plan was never taken out and I never took the bag off the wall. Then, the other green bag had the Poleroid light filter in. I took that light filter in and out so many times that ihe elastic on the top of the bag broke and the bag ~ot completely frayed from my right leg rubbing agai:n.st it. My pressure suit actually wore that clott all through. You can see that on that bag t hat came out of there . So they didn' t work at all . We kept s.11 our food garbage and all that little sort of tl:.ings in the silver food bags that we opened and wl'..en we filled one we would wrap it with tape and stew it down there until it was time for our daily housecleaning. I might add for stowage two items that we found were extremely important were rubber bands and tape. " We actually ran out of tape on the eighth day pack ing the last of the garbage. We used every bit of tape that we could lay our hands on. We took the tape off of the bags. ftBEN,T"'L •
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