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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).
129 way in flight , and we did ; we both went to s leep at the same time . And I ' m sure if we would start losing pressurization our ears would have told us that we were as sensitive to that as we were to noise . Cooper Thi s schedule we have covered that , I think it should be in . Because invariably, we could get busy doing other things and have many interfer ences and it would wind up that we would both wind up sleeping during the normal Eas t Coast nighttime cycle . In variably, we just weren ' t sleepy at other times . Conrad Yeah, I think the other thing is that now in the schedule my naptime al ways took place when we were cleaning the spacecraft . This was too short after the stateside passes . That compressed the whole rest of the sleeping cycle . Although we tried to stick to it . Gordo woul d go to sleep for his long period which was usually 5 hours instead of 6 be cause we ' d slid into that time . We always ate our meals together and we were scheduled not to . We always took the vision test together . We weren ' t , this way we compr essed things down . And uh , then I usually wound up having about 5 hours off , but I never s lept the full 5 hours . There was just one ..
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