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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.
213C0~61DENTIA~ well and I guess the guy outside probably couldn't .,. see in as well as we could see out . They were fogged a little. There were no l ea.ks that we could tell. Electrical Power , everything was nominal . o2 was fine. Conrad Electrical power, we,we, we, did not power .down the squib betteries after we got on the water and we went through the landing check list and powered down all electrical equipment except the radios and the beacons and a biomed recorders and the blood pressure. Cooper We took a complete power down check list. We followed check list right on the money. Sea condition was 2 to 3 foot easy swells. 7.6 Post Landing Activity Cooper Post landing activities . Let's see, we proceeded to continue to try and contact and answer somebody. We heard all the activity around and over and around us. The firs't thing we finatly heard in the way of communications was when one of the swimmers plugged in this outside phone jack and talked to us. He wasn't r eal clear but he was coming through pretty well . He wanted to know if we ,,
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