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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).
Conrad Cooper Conrad Cooper Conrad Cooper Conrad Cooper Cooper 11 1 Okay, maps and overl ays--they were really good. D-6 books and the data books were good and we used the star charts-- The onl y maps I thought weren't worth a darn were the Apoll o landmark maps. Yes , well you'll get to debrief on that through Apollo in here. But our straight data books and everything-- Yes , they were good . We used .all of them . No comment on them. We took the experiments procedure book and the ex periments log book just like this , and whoever had the watch side put them in the Volkswagen bag. We ' d take the reentry book, which we had the PLA updates in, and the other book, and we woul d just throw the~ down between our legs. If you wanted to l ook at the f l ight plan you would just f lick it up , grab it , and read the thing, and throw it back down there again. There was enough r oom so that Pete kept them on the side of his left l eg, and I kept them on the sid.e of my right l eg, and we woul d just pass them back and forth. Okay, start charts--by gol 1 y , I thought they were
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