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This is a preliminary Part II transcript of the Gemini 5 (GT-5) flight crew debriefing, prepared by the Spacecraft Operations Branch of NASA's Flight Crew Support Division and dated September 2, 1965. It records astronauts Cooper and Conrad at the Crew Quarters, Cape Kennedy. They discuss how the spacecraft systems worked, including the platform and the OAMS thruster failures. The transcript also covers operational checks, visual sightings, experiments, training, premission planning, and medical aspects. It was originally classified Confidential.
From the source: Release of 2026-06-12 Incident: August 30 - September 2, 1965, Cape Kennedy, Florida. This document is a preliminary transcript (Part II) 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. Astronauts L. Gordon Cooper and Charles “Pete” Conrad described observing debris and “snow” and “all sorts of glittering pieces of this, that and the other thing” in the “Visual Sightings” section of the document (pages 157-220).
5 Conrad You don't want to be deceived by the fact that the needles are holding in the center pretty well. Cooper That's right, one thing that we found when we were going through this real, real long platform alinement prior to getting all l i ned up for retro fire was that we had the needles all alined, t hey were sitting all glued out . But you have to s i t there with them for a little b i t glued out . They sit there all zeroed out, it looks like everything was all alined and al l of a sudden yaw begin to ease off quite a bit showing that we weren ' t alined. Conrad At one time we went to Orbit Rate when we had not pulled the yaw all the way in and, boy, it showed up in r oll as we started moving around. Cooper Orbit Rate and Horizon Scan. Conrad I mean it shwed up in the roll axis . Cooper Oh, yes. Right . Conrad You have to take t he time and be careful with the platform alinement, no doubt about i t. ° CSf*fDEt◄ TIAl
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