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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.
ONFTDENTl~t 37 think they ' re r eally bad where they are . Conrad After the big sweat was over and we got a GO and we were relatively sure we were going to stay there for awhile unless we , you lmow, had some other emergency come up , I would have preferred to take off the harness and the life jacket and stow it somewhere if we ' d have had a place to stow it . Cooper Right . Conrad But the other thing is that maybe that ' s just my per sonal feeling . I ' m extremely meticulous and we kept that spacecraft as empty as possible . Everything had it ' s place and it stayed in it ' s place . Cooper And that harness and the vest--are pret t y big, bulky items - Conrad And I wasn ' t going to have it rattling around down there on the floor , loose . Cooper Okay, on the drogue pins . By golly, I thought those new l i ttle things on the drogue pins made them very easy to get in and out. There wasn ' t a bit of problem wit h those . Conrad I popped the drogue pins in and out on mine . Coope~ I put mine i n or out once just to ... . Conrad I think Gordo put his own in and out once to see if he
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