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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).
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Conrad Cooper Conrad Cooper Conrad Cooper Conrad Cooper where it will burn -- Yes , you could smell paint. It burns the paint in the spacecraft . You can smell paint cooking. That's the first thing that we noticed, the first day. I 'll tell you what heats up. It 's the reostat . Well, the thunderstorm light th.at Gordo 1 s referring to doesn't have a reostat. That just flat puts out heat. It just flat puts out heat. You can burn your glove right off your hand on th.at one. Your under-window right and left lights -- if we ran those at great periods of time with the light dimmed down , th.at reostat gets so bloody hot th.at you can smell the paint cooking again. I felt that that was a real bad sit uation and we have comments on th.at -- So we kept rotating these lights on and off. We never did burn our lights too steadily unless we absolutely had to . The other problem there was that anything that generates th.at much heat is going to have a tendency to burn out, and I 'll tell you, you lose one of those cockpit lights, buddy, and you are screwed. You really are. ,QNFl9Et ◄ TIAL.21a 99
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