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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.
90 Cooper Cooper Conrad were -- I wonder what the reason was for that . There was some interference with something. I conldn ' t get to that one. Oh, what the heck was it? There was something else going on they had us doing right then . Oh , somebody was asking me somet:1ing. They were having a big discussion over cryo . That ' s right . We had a great big 2 days 6 hours - we had a big discussion over the net on something on these cryos and it occured right at the time when we were supposed to get this one on this Jass . Okay, at 2 days 7 hours and 45 minutes we did MSC- 1 again, and in fact I think we did all the MSC- l 's pretty much on schedul e. At 2 days 9 hours and 15 minutes we were supposed to do an Apollo Landmark in Africa, and the one they called out for us to do in the Flight Plan , there just wasn ' t any description of it . It was very poorly described and we couldn't find where and what it was they wanted us to get. They never did call out a number on this nor did they have it listed here . What was the time on that? ... Cooper It was almost 02:09:20 : 00 .
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