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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).
-e@N Pl8ENTI 103 we ran the left side only, we ran the right side only; we ran them in a:ny combination you could think of, just dependent on what you wanted to do with them. Sometimes you needed lights in the daytime, sometimes you didn't need lights in the daytime . It depend s on what your orientation ~a9 and what you were doing. That was very interesting. It's an entirely lighting situation than in an -ai-rplane . Cooper Let ' s see. We checked out the one light that we hadn't mentioned here. I think we mentioned all of them ex cept the doggone docking light. We did check it out, and it really throws out a nice light out there . We didn ' t have anything to try it out on out beyond the nose, but it sure lights up the nose. As a matter of f act, on that onenlght side we kept wondering where in the heck that light was com.;_ng from. Conrad I kept saying, "Hey, the sun is really shining on the nose for a long time . " It was the night I blew up the- Cooper We were pointing straight up. Conrad Yeah, I 'd blown up the shrimp and gotten it all over the right console, and when I was cleaning it off, I had inadvertently turned on the docking light switch. It took me about 10 minutes looking out there trying ..
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