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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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206 7,1 Impact Cooper Conrad Cooper Conrad ~GNFl&ENTIAf , 7, 0 LANDING AND RECOVERY Impact, was very very soft . We just hit . We hit very easy. We didn't go under water at all . We didn ' t change attitude one bit from t he time we hit the water. We went bloop. We just pitched down a little bit The nose pitched down 8 or 10 degrees but the water didn't even come over the windows. lhe main hit parachute release, the chute drifted off in front just slightly out to the right of us md just sat out there in the water on the right fJr a long time. We did skip this one thing here with this 6. 13 post main check off list . We got all the way through that and I wanted to say that I had the decided impression that we got to the post main and got back over here on this 2000 foot check list pretty fast. I mean that time happene,d faster than the simula tor but it took us a little while to get our heads unlocked, and after we went to 2-point and get back on this check- off list, and boy, we hadn ' t a:n:y more gotten through this when we were .. • 0NFIBENTIAL
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