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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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FCSD Rep Conrad Cooper Conrad Cooper Conrad Cooper 125 ~eMUAL Why don ' t we finish this sleep period? And we wil l be through with systems and pick up those questions . Start the experiments. Okay . Okay , sleep period . I think the schedule needs to be set somewhere around the normal s l eep cycle that a person has a l ready, in other words , I don ' t think that the s l eep ought to be set for mid- morning or mid- afternoon . And I personally think that the cockpit is small enough that you ' re al mos t going to have to s l eep both guys at the same time . I concur . I don ' t think you can be doing the ex ? eriments with one of them-- And have the other one asleep . Yeah. Pete and I both found that the times when we really slept the bes t and most comfortable and real ly got some good sound s leep was when we powered that thing completely down and turned all the l ights out and were down around the backside area of South America and there wasn ' t anybody to cut in and be flashing in to tell us all kind of things and they woul d leave us a l one and we just both power down and go to sleep and get a good s l eep . And that is the only way you are going to do it , becaus e if one guy is •
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