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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.
.. Cooper Conrad Cooper FCSD REP Cooper Conrad Cooper Conrad Cooper FCSD REP FHID~Nf lAL 27 1/You can feel t hem almost mo,-e than you can hear them. You can feel them vibrate r eally, more than you can hear them . I mean , you can hear them too , but the vibrat ion you can hear them too, but t he vi bration you can f eel the thrust . Have you ever heard a high speed hose or high speed water jet. Shhh ... That 's the impression that I had. Yes, that ' s right. Even from the aft firing thruster? Ever y thruster we had on t here. We heard every thruster on the whol e f l ight It never occurred in my mind when the thrus t ers were fired. You can feel them and I can hear them. I couldn't hear them in the sense of an expl osive sound or a roar . It sounded like wat er swishing. Yes , very definitely, more a Shhh . And I was aware of it again when we made the burns l ater on, you know , we made the reverse coelliptic stuff and all that. How did these noises , the thruster noises , sound compared with the way the last crew set the mission simulator? '
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