Gemini 5 Technical Debriefing, Part I, 1965

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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Realize that if we had to reenter shortly or even
if we pack it t ightly, but I think the bottom of
the box I think I wasted a--1 111 say I could
have put another silver bag or two worth of trash
in there by stuffing the lower part i f I had
known about it in the beginning. But it didn't
t ake us much past day 2 to realize that we had a
trash problem and we had to keep on top of it
every single day if we were going to ever have it
cleaned up at t he end. And we were in good shape.
We were as clean as a whistle when we came in .
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