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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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72 Conrad Cooper Conrad Cooper Conrad Cooper €Or<tFlt,fN Ii.2u • below us . That kind of startles you when you :: realize they are 9ntering below you. It means ve you. This is when the exp imenters went out of their minds . They handed us this flight pl8l1 you wouldn ' t believe where they had 1, 2, 3,4,5 , 6,7,8,9,10 , 11 , 12 , 13,14 , 15 , 16 ,17,18 , 19 , 20,21 22,23, no 22 experiments they gave us to do in a row an they ir.volved everything in the spacecraft anti we had gear all over . You wouldn ' t believe it . I never had so much junk--we went wild. That '/s when we called up and said, "Hey, gang let ' s be a l i t·~le more reasonable." The other problem didn't list them seque Yes , that ' s right. They put them in there and we had to keep skipping around on them to get the sequential time on them and that was a mess . Now, what we did is we copied down in this book and then we'd write it down at the proper time so that we had it sequentially in the flight plan. It worked out very well . NFIDE
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