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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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123 Cooper Well, I ' ll tell you , a couple of days we ate a lot more . That third day we had a real full day . We were really busy. Man , we really had the appetite . We really gobbled down the food and we ate good . Those days we were just drifting were-- Conrad That makes sense to me because if I ' m wor king I eat a lot and if I ' m not working I don ' t eat much. Cooper Maybe our morale was low all over . We didn' t consume much food . I got hungry and Pete did , too . I could tell when I was hungry , and we'd say okay let ' s break out the food and eat . We really boiled down to just about 2 meals a day when we powered down and 3 meals a day when we were working hard . It was only about 2 meals a day powered down that we even wanted . The bite s i ze food tastes awful good when you just sit around and snack on bite size food . I t just didn ' t taste wor t h anything up there . I may have finished off maybe one or possibly two packages of it up t here just by having it sitting around i n •that little nook or cranny . Maybe once a day , I'd have one of t hem. Jus t an i n-between meal snack but other t han that i t was really a waste having t hem along. I think that if we had all bite size food we would have quit eating -eof'~kJelSt rrm
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