Gemini 5 Technical Debriefing, Part I, 1965

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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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