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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.
155 .. FCSD Rep Conrad f l ight and everything that we just di dn ' t ever shoot up the 16 mm film . There just wasn ' t that much to shoot it up on. How long for reentry? Starting stowage for reentry? Would you estimate? We did it in three steps . 20 hours before reentry we started really really thinking about the big stuff . You know the thing that we thought mi ght cause us a problem. The one place that we were worried about was getting all the stuff in the left hand box . So that ' s when we got t o looking at the tapes . We got all the gear out that we had to stow in ·there i ncluding the Hasselblad and sort of got an idea how much room it was going to take in that box and that was when we decided we had to tape the cartridges . Now when I say tape 18 car tridges, heck, that sho t an hour r i ght there . mean, you just don ' t do anything fast up there , and so we were ready for reentry 6 or 7 hours before reentry. We could have come in anytime , because we took care of our major i tems very early. Now, this doesn ' t mean that we couldn ' t afford to pull that camera gear and run experiments because all that stuff was still in the same place and we I
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