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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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109 Conxad Cooper -. Conrad Cooper Conrad Cooper Conxad Cooper Conrad D- 6 map that Harry Kozuma had in there. Yes, we used this one, too. Yes, this big map that he had in here.was really a good one. Yes , that helped you even better find out where you were. Man that's a good map . For instance, over here , we were over here trying to find some details on some isla.nois . Where was it? Yes, you could go to this map and get an orbit and come down to-- Oh, islands or something off here. Let ' s see, where were they? Some of these little islands right here, off India- We could pick up these little tiny chains and these things . The Solomons and these little messy things down in here- boy,. and all this stuff out in here . Here is all that junk we kept passing over in there- Yes ! We were getting the New Hebrides, the Carolines, and the Marshalls . We were going over everyone of those darn islands, just like on our maps, boy. Just beautiful . And you could really pinpoint your location. That
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