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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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• could have laid our hands on it. We didn't actually stow the Hasselblad till the very end. Cooper We stowed it about 4 hours . Conr ad And so we were prepared by working constantly through the night but not steadily. We worked on and off . We took little rests. Then we went back and-- Cooper To give a time estimate though for purposes of planning I would say you should figure on it taking you at least a minimum of about 4 hours to really thoroughly restow. And this depends 0:1 how messy t he cockpit is . If its really messy it will take longer than that . If the cockpit is r,~asonably squared away and reasonably clean you ;,hould figure on it taking about 4 hours to rHally complet ely thoroughly stow everything and get ready for reentry. Conrad Now we were really conscious all 8 dayn- - we would say to one another, "Boy, it's time to stop and stow things right now," because the si·;uation is getting out of hand and you'd be surpr:.sed at how fast you can build up trash in tha"; cockpit and not realize that it is in there, ycru see . •
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