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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).
120 :ti 0t ◄ fl8Et ◄ T1)!(~ It i s sure different than Mercury. The food just boil s down to the fact that we quit eating the bite size food entirely. We had absolute ly no desire for it after the third day . I doubt whet·:1.er we touched a drop of that bite size food affor t he third day . We ate s t rictly the rehydrated food. If I were sitting down r i ght now to redo this flight, I would make up a recommendation ::or the food . I would have a number of bags made up just the size of these rehydratab l e bags . Bagi; that don't have to be folded, crushed , rolled, or steam rollers driven over them . I ' d make up these packets of eight , ten , or f i f teen or whatever the neatest package with a zipper or a velcro on it if:. I ' d put those in there and let the pilot pick out what he wanted for a meal. He could pick out one or two or three or wha tever he felt like he wanted for a meal. He could do the same with the juices. I'd have other bags in with just juices . We ' d have a grea t many juices all stacked i n there , and they don ' t have to be all folded and crumpled up . I thi nk they will probably package a lot neater this way. You just have two types of bags . You'd have
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