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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.
18 Conr ad Cooper Conrad FCSD REP they were not there before they were t'nere and I ; saw them when they hit. They h it duri:'.l.g all this debris flying around period . I think that you can sti11 f i nd them o:'.l. the windshields . They didn ' t burn off during reentry. But they ' re not bad and there are just a few little scattered ones and I think it might be interesting t o compare how many you get there vers us and how many you get when you jettison them in orbit . It may wel l be that jettisoni ng in orbit would be pre ferab l e , but I didn ' t f i nd anything objectionable t o jettisoning where they went , they wenm fine. It did add a lot of debris and I agree with Pete there was a big torn something or other out there which may just be a fiberglass thing that is kind of . .. ,. Yes , I want to get down and look at the R and R and and I can tell you what it was , describe it a lot better. We ' ll probably have some pictures of it too in the camera somewhere. I know it ' ll show up in some film . How l ong was this visible? You say there was a big bunch of stuff out there . ONFIDENTIAL
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