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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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•114 Conrad Cooper Conrad Cooper Conrad Cooper Conrad Cooper • honestly !mow what you are goi ng to do better because of the ejection situation, but they are in the way. They are in the way of everything you do, and they are real little bearcats to get on and off---these little lifevests. We didn't have a place to stow them. Yes, we left them on the whole darn time just because we didn I t have anywhere to stow them. llut they are really in the way. They are a real pail'.. in the rear. Yes, it ' s all part of the suit combina tjon. Well, that's right. If you didn ' t have the suit, they wouldn.1 t be so bad. Waste disposal- pack harder. Yes . Pack tighter. That's a very grave problem, in the f act that as you start getting defecaticn wastes of this type you want an area where you are not going to mix ing that with other items too much, and you want an area that you start packing right the first time so you don ' t have to keep dragging it all out and repacking. I don't !mow how you are going to do it any differently than we did~in keeping one area completely open for it, and just working and using that for your disposal
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