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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.
209G0MFIDENTIAL Conrad No , the cabin was a bout 53 degrees . Somewhere in there. It was a little over 50 , and the suit was rll!llling Cooper The sui t was rll!llling about 50 on reentry so the whole thing was pretty cool. Conrad It was never hot at any time. Cooper When we opened our face plates the cabin was still cool, the suits were still cool , and the snorkel and vent when we did open them and both fans came on after we went OFF of o HIGH RATE, Repress and 2 both fans came on. We were getting nice cool air through . .. . Yes, we have been hearing everybody say, you know, boy you've got to get those suits off, you really get hot in there. You see and Gordo said "Well come on we are going to be here for awhile, we'll get the suits off" and it was perfectly obvious that we were getting a good flow and I said "Well, why don ' t we put our neck dams, on and we ' ll leave the inlet snorkel open here and get this fans running and see, just see , just sit here for a second , because you get awful hot getting out of the suit period. And by golly we were in good shape. We could have stayed in tlut
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