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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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112 Conrad Cooper Cooper - r eally good, and I think anybody that wants to get lined up for a night retro, if they do :_t once and aren't convinced that star charts were pretty use ful they're -- Well, it gave us a great deal of confidence to go into the star chart the last day and pic:k out the right yaw stars, and then, as we were aJ.ining the platform, to see those yaw stars go right through the middle like they were supposed to. I think the star chart was very usable snd very neat, much smaller and neater in this fashion than it is in this great big mechanism thing we hav-e . I think they're very usable in that fashion. Stowage. Hah! What are we supposed to say about stowage? Boy, it's probably the most critical thing in a long flight . It has to be kept up on an hourly basis . Belts and harness-- I thought they were perfectly satisfactory, except for one set of bel ts I wanted to get out before the flight and if I were doing it again, I'd take my own scissors down there and cut them out. That is the knee belt which was put in there for pressurized ejection . I t is still in there, and it is in the way, and I hated the darn thing. Mine flopped and f l apped around in there .
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