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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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frost all over have enough time e -- I 81----- it completely off and later they told us that we could go a.head and shut it completely off. And we were sitting in there just shivering and shaking and I was a lot colder than Pete. He was cold and I was really cold. I was really thinking seriously about--if we couldn ' t get that thing warmed up I was going to take my suit off and I did for a while in fact ~ake my inlet and exhaust hoses off . Conrad Yes, that was his answer to the problem. When he got too cold, just disconnect. Conrad Just let it blow i nto the cabin. Cooper But, it was so cold in there that ·ndows froze over and we were sitting there spinnin@. Conrad It had a rapid freeze on them. I didn't see that except when we were doing the high tumqling and i t got really cold in there . I Cooper You could see the frost bui ld up on the outside all over the spacecraft . Outside up o the nose section around the thrusters down there . When you tumb sunlight-- when the sun- think to warm up that particular section. When we damped it immediately thereafter
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