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Gemini 5 Technical Debriefing, Part II, 1965

National Aeronautics and Space Administration · 1965 · 325 pages · text from the file's own layer

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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food bags and juice bags . And then I'd have another
bag just full of these wet wipes . I f somebody
wanted a wet wipe they could go in and get a wet wipe .
They wouldn ' t have to be handed back and forth ,
back and forth . They wouldn ' t be hanging all over
the cockpit. And that way you ' d have a very neat
set up . You wouldn ' t have a lot of food that is
difficult to stow. The big difficulty in s t owing
this food is the paper . This makes the bulk.
All this tinfoil and other · things wrapped in
individual plastic and then more foil and a great
big package holding the whole thing. And When you
get all this paper gathered up the best you can
possibly packet you have at least equal volume to what
you had initially with the food . I think that you
can cut down a great deal by clever packaging and allow
the pilot to choose his foods per meal . I think he'll
be happier . I think the packaging of it will be
neater and easier . I think you will get a lot more
effective use of space . I think the biggest
problem for GT-7 will be that they are going to
have a 2- 1 factor . Everytime they pul l out a package
of food, by the time they get that food plus the waste
products back in and stowed it ' s going to be exactly
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