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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 Conrad Cooper Conrad Cooper took my harness off in flight twice . I took 1 em " off once-- Yeah, but you wouldn ' t even have to step through these :: leg loops if you had - just like on an airplane harness . You could undo that and you wouldn ' t eve·'.l. have to worry about the leg loops . Then all you 1 d have to do is just slide out of the torso area. Yeah. Well» lets sees that ' s what I' m saying. If you unhook both of those leg loops and you throw the whole thing down in the footwell and then you pull it back up again you got a leg strap floating off ever here and you got a - - Well that ' s no problem. It ' s no worse i.han it is find ing your lap belt . Did you ever have i;rouble getting your lap belt back on after you took it off? I always hitched it on the Velcro over on the side . But you never had any trouble ~ ting t o it. I didn ' t . / I let mine float free and I never had any trouble getting t o them at all . Well , I just don 1 t lmow now. I really d:i.dn ' t think it was that bad getting in and out of this harness . My only concern was that if- - I stayed- - How many times did you get i n and out o f it? ~
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