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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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87 Cooper Okay , we moved to Med Data to Hawaii at 19 hours and 55 minutes which we did. I got there at 7 i n the Caribbean at 20 hours and did the MSC- 1 at 21 hours 52 minutes to 22 hours and 44 minutes. Conrad Then we stayed on the flight plan there and at Hawaii had a critical tape dump at 1 day 23 hours . I congratulated Gordo for exceeding his original flight time at 2 days hours . Cooper Just barely started . Conrad Gee . Ob! Here's that "dinged by a micrometeorite . " I haven ' t told anyone about this because I ' m not really sure that was what happened, because it happened twice and it happened right in the same place . It might have been metal cooling, but right over my head something dinged the hatch . Just bigger than heck - dinged. You know , just like someone shot a B- B off of it . Cooper Yes, I could hear . That's just exactly what it sounded like . Conrad I was convinced that we had gotten dinged by a micrometeorite . So I put it on the voice tape and wrote it down here . Then a couple of hours later we got dinged just as loud just about in the same •
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