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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.
201 Cooper Conrad FCSD REP Conrad G0NFIDEI\ITIAL over there to the 2000 Kand I was . . .. One thing that took a little bit of our time there though, Pete , was the fact that the AIR BOSS called us twice there and we were actually busy answering that. We were talking on the radio and a little talking to Houston on the radio too . Why don't you talk a little bit more about the 2000 foot that pressurized in the cabin . Yes, well then we went the D-ring safety cover. We covered our D- rings but I can't put my D- ring pin in so I didn ' t put the pin in until we were on the water. I can't put that pin in , in flight, strappen in the seat. I can't reach down there. Gordo , can. 'Gordo can reach down and get it. I can't do it. So, I didn't put mine in. Then I went to cabin vent UP and inlet snorkel UP and then left the recirc valve at 45 degrees, and of course the repress had been on since 50,000. So had the o HIGH RATE, or some altitude shortly thereafter. 2 The cabin seemed to be coming up very slowly. It doesn't even with repress on. That's a, I guess, a lot of volume in there or something, but it just doesn ' t come up fast. So we were about a pound when CONFtDENTIAL
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