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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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151 Cooper Conrad Cooper FCSD Rep Conrad Cooper ~GNaDENTIAL And I had a whole pocketful of rubber bands. And Gordo had a whole pocketful of rubber bands . We found that was the only way to handle the food. After we ate a rehydratable package or even a few solid packages that we opened. We always resealed them again wi th tape and rolled them up as small as we could get them and used the tape to wrap them with for stowage. To keep them very small and compact. Did you get all this stuff where you originally planned to put it? I have a copy of our reentry stowage here which shows what varied from the way it was. Now the big items, there was only one big item that didn't go . There were only two i terns that didn't get stowed i n the place that it was called for that I remember right now. The S-1 camera went over in the right food box rather than the left food box and the urine device we kept out until the last minute and we restowed it in its original stowage place which was in Gordo's left box. And then there were two partial bags of defecation bags and an empty bag and one bag full of about a half of a meal , paper and wrappings from one meal
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