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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.
214 C..ONFIB~Nft~t wanted to wait on the carrier or if we wanted a chopper pick up. I asked him how fal' the carrier was away and he went ahead and told t:.s about 75 miles at that time. We told him we relieved we wanted to take the choppers. 7.7 Comfort Cooper Comfort was fine in the spacecraft. EDSD REP How long were you in the spacecraft in your suit? Conrad 35, 40 minutes . Cooper About 35 or 40 minutes I . . . Maybe a little bit more . 7. 8 Recovery Force Personnel Cooper Recovery f orce personnel and communications . As I say they did communicate with us with the telephone. First of all one of the swimmers came up and looked in the window and held up his thumb and we held up our thumbs okay, so that took the sweE.t off them. Floa tation collar, they had slightly more trouble than usually getting it around but not a great deal. It probably took th~m maybe 10 or 15 minutEtS to get it around there and inflated . 7. 9 Egress Cooper Right after they got it inflated we told them we were coming out for the chopper. I opened the left --~ONF-IDENTIAL
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