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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.
1 1 .0 COUNTDOWN 1.1 Crew Insertion Cooper The crew insertion , I thought, went very well . Conrad Yes , we had the suiting thing down on my cuffs and everything so that we got right ou t t here and, boy, th& Gunter was ready for us and i n we went . Cooper They were all set . There were no delays and every thing went exceedingly well on t he gantry. 1 . 2 Communications Cooper Communications , I thought were good and no probl em at all on communications, and everything went real well. Conrad Yes , Stoney handled that whole thing real well . Cooper All right, volume was still down on the little comm sets in the transfer van there . That ' s Stoney' s little improvement . 1 . 3 Crew Participation in Countdown Cooper Crew participation in the countdown was good . I didn ' t see anything at all wrong. Conrad Yes , we weren ' t rushed . We felt t hat we had enough time to get the switches in the right position and just ever ything went real good. 1.4 Comfort Cooper Comfort was real fine . We went on to two suit fans
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