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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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• 73 Conrad FCSD Rep Cooper Conrad Cooper You , don't want to get into which experiments we got done and which ones we didn't or do you? Do you want to go through it that detailed? Well, there's an experiment section in there . Well , let's cover all the experiments in the experiment section . We might just comment right now how that I think our book arrangement worked out extremely satisfactory and I don't know how we'd have ever kept up with where we were if we hadn't had these books to follow . We just passed these books back and forth and we managed to keep them stowed pretty neatly. I knew r ight where they were . Pete· kept them stowed beside his left leg in the seat. They slid right do~m the seat. Right here and Gordo kept them on his right and if he had them and I wanted one -- If he was asleep I would just reach over and slide them out and vice-versa. And then our Volkswagon pouches held the l i ttle ones real fine . These books were used a jilli on man- hour s-- just back and for th. They really worked out well. They're easy to write in and we tried to keep meticulous logs on everything and I think we did reasonably ftBENTIAt
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