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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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• 101 there with a.ny light on in the cockpit. In order to use the reticl e , you have almost got to dim out all the lights in the cockpit, and this is pretty ha.rd to do because you need to use some around. Conrad And , you know, they bad a light down on the center pedestal shining aft that was supposed to light up the water management panel, and everybody took it out. You have to do most of your work on that water manage ment panel blind. I mean, you sort of put your hand in there backwards and everything, and , as long as everything runs all right , you only need that one switch to go from off to overboard. The other two switches stay in the normal position unless you have some sort of problem. But it would be nice to light up that whole area down there. There is no way, without a flashlight or pulling that auxiliary light way over there , to tell how much water you have in the water tank. Cooper I don't think you can tell with it. I took that auxiliary light and got back in there and practically crawled down in there. With that darn M- 1 experiment thing installed on t0p of the tank there , you can't see the water level bubble anymore. They i nstalled
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