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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.
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50 Cooper Conrad Cooper FCSD Rep Conrad Cooper Conrad Cooper Conrad Cooper Conrad :JI bat we broke the 0- ring. .. That 's right . That ' s right . That 's the first one . We broke the 0- ring and couldn ' t give them that blood pressure . I think that was the one. That 's right. We fina l ly gave that one up , The 0-ring was broken on that one. Let's see . This first blood pressure that you got an hour... They got that one and then when Gordo-- When I, When we transferred over to me and I plugged it in the ... 0-ring broke and ,:e didn't have time for tha t pass again . We had a bunch more 0-rings . I forget when we fixed it but we fixed it.. . Fixed somewhere around there. ... shortly thereafter . M-1 experiment . We turned it on on time .
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