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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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117 Cooper Two other things we have is that you leave preheat on for 4 minutes prior to flushing. We got one t remendous big glob of urine ice that broke off sometime about the fifth day. Conrad Oh, yes . Cooper And, man, that indicated that it really bui l t up . It must have been as big as that box there . Conrad It looked like one of those sand castles you build . It was a conica l buildup of ice . The liquid had flowed out . It kept building up and building up . But it was still flowing out through the center like a volcano. The darn thing broke off one day ou t there , and, boy , I tell you that thing was about this big around and it was about 3 and 1/2 inches high. It just went floating right by the spacecraft and it was pure yellow. Ha , ha! It was about 3 by 4 by 3 or 3 1/2 or 4. About 3 inches in diameter and about 4 inches high . It was triangular , dribbled up, rough shaped, but you could see where it was smooth on the back side where it had actually s tarted to freeze. Boy , that scared us . We didn ' t want the urine system to freeze up so we went to 4 minutes . We used the recommended McDonnell procedures and we revised those slightly when we found out the tar was beginning .CO ~4 FIB l!r 4ih',I&
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