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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.
FtDENTtAL 33 Cooper Okay, belts . I couldn ' t ~~he belts . The harness - While we 're on the harness , I don ' t like that harness worth anything. t hink what we need is a simple type adjustable type harness wi th clips on the legs that you can undo legs to get to some of the functions you have to : uri pation and defecation and so on in the spacecy ft . I do ' t see why we have to have a big, expensi/e, custom, made ha~ss that you can ' t readily get on off and this on~ you can not readily get and if you had one with on it and snaps like you do on harness , it would be, I think, a hundred times useful as this one . Conrad Let me ask you a ~uestion . Do you really - now , do you r eally - I agree. Let me say this . I agree you should firs t be able to get your harness on and off, but in zero- g I ' m not convinced that three , especially two leg snaps type arrangement. In other words , a harness that would come completely loose and have many straps that hitch to the other straps would be really good in zero- g . What I think we need to do is to be able to get in and out of that harness that we have, easier. Like, maybe you could loosen the leg straps on it but not have them come apart . Now , I ~ NftDENTrAL
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