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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).
102 - Pete's M- 1 experiment right on top of the water tank where the water level bubble and the mea3uring gauge is . It ' s built right on over it, so you can ' t see it . Conrad We used every combination of l ights in t :1ere that you could think of, depending on what we we:re doing. Sometimes we ran with Gordo--if one guy was sleeping, the other guy would run with his red lights on dim. And many nights, we ran with no lights at all . We had that much confidence in things like 1!abin pres surization and so forth, that we just powered down the lights and we would go through whole night sides without ever turning the lights on and never even looking at the instrument panel when we were in dri::ting f light. We would both nod or look out the window., Cooper Or sleep. Conrad Yes, and one of the reasons we did this Has because of this heating problem. I had a decided fear that we would be in real trouble if we burned ou·; any light . We had no way of replacing them. So , an;:r time I could conserve elec t rical lighting, by saving the bulb , I would turn the thing off. I didn ' t want to build up big hea t loads in them. We ran red lights , we ran white lights, we ran the center lights only,
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