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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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153 on them. They had originally had the-- in my side the blood pressure reprogrammer , the hose intercon nect adapters and the pilot's personal preference kit . Gordo's side it had just the personal prefer ence kit and the hose interconnect, right? There wasn't anything else in there , was there? Cooper I don ' t think there was . It calls out here for a blood pressure reprogrammer but we only had one. Cooper No, we only had the one on board. Conrad Okay, I removed those three items and Gordo removed his two items just prior to reentry . Cooper The hose interconnect--! had Conrad Yes, that's what I sai d , the hose interconnect and the pilot's personal preference kit . The two kits we stowed in our leg pockets and the two hose things we stowed up in the green pouches during reentry so that they would be handy on the water to connect the hoses up . We filled those wing boxes with food trash from the last days worth of meals because we had completely filled the right hand food box with trash and we had completely filled the left food box. Let ' s see in the left food box we did stow the 16 mm J:lDEN
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