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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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twice the size it was when it came out. I don ' t
believe there is anyway t o get around it the way
the food is packaged .
Conrad What are you going to do? Jim a.nd .l!:d at11 everything
in the spacecraft. You and I hardly ate anything.
If we had known that we were going to eat what we ate ,
we could have had twice the room in the Bpacecraf t .
Cooper Yes.
Conrad We lef t 10 packages of food there . We m•ver
ever touched it . Plus we filled up the Jocker
with another third of the food we didn't eat from
the packages that we opened . Toast, apri cot cubes ,
brownie squares, fruit cakes , a.nd I don ' t know
what all were stuffed all over that spacecraft .
We didn't eat any of that . I couldn' t eat it if
I had wanted to. I just didn ' t have a:ny desire
for that stuff at all .
Cooper I don ' t know what it was about, but it jus t seemed
to be so dry, and chew and concentrated .
Conrad The doctors figured we were running on ab)ut
1800 calories a day , and I don ' t feel that we were
cheating ourselves . There is a big diffe::-ence between
our flight and Jim and Ed ' s . They went a::ter this
big extravehicular t hing, and I think tha·; it probably--
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