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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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215CONFIDEf\lTIAL 7.10 Survival Gear Cooper 7,11 Crew Pick Up Cooper FCSD REP side hatch. We did have our . • • we saw that they had the floa tation collar around there and the sea was calm and there was no problem getting any water in the spacecraft and we decided we weren't going to go in the water ourselves . We did have our neck "'1ams on but we did not have our gloves on. We left our helmet and gloves in the cock- pit and decided well if we did go in the water for unforecast reason we had our water wings and our wrists are tight enough to hold your arms above water and not get much in. So, we didn ' t fiddle with any survival gear or anything. We just stood out on the nose of the spacecraft. In fact .•• then I moved from the nose over into one of the liftrafts. Pete came up out of the hatch and stood on the nose and he took the first . . . horse co~lar came around. He got the ho~se collar and went up to the chopper first and they lowered it again and I went in behind him. Oh, one thing we didn ' t mention here . How a bout cutting the chute, the main chute? CONFIDENTIAL
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