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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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208 CONEIDENJIAl F'CSD REP Conrad Cooper Conrad Cooper Conrad Cooper we landed. Never got over a pound? Never got over a pound I don ' t believe. Then we ca.me OFF on the repress and we opened .. our face plates, Then we opened our face plates and tcok a sniff in there. It didn't smell to bad . I had a little smell of RCS fumes. Now mind you we were s ealed off at 2000 so I know it didn't come in on the water. The RCS fumes that were in there came in there at 27000 when we opened the vent and the inlet snorkel so I ' m stil l -- if the structure would take jt, I really think you should come in and leave that inlet snorkel and that vent closed. If you did that you would ha-re a clean, cold cabin when you.hit the water. Okay, now . I didn't really think it was as object ionable . No, it wasn't objectionable. It was cool. One thing we might add ,:ight here right now, that we didn ' t cover back :.n the pre retro area was trat we went the full cold on everythi ng. We had that cabin so cold , and we went to cabin fan and so that the cagin wae1 about, wha t , 40 degrees, 50 degrees.
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