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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).
130 • night that I did . There was one night that Gor do slept maybe 6 or 7 hours and I let him Eleep that whole time because we were just exhausted. And that was the same reciprocal thing -- he let me sleep for 6 or 7 hours . That was the only time in the f l ight that we both real ly s l ept any long period of time . The rest of the time I don't t hink we ever slept longer than 2 hour s at the most -- And most of the time it was 50 minutes between s t ations. Cooper Well, that ' s the whole thing , that the -- on this schedule thing there are many , many, many inter fer ences to sleeping and these stations just calling in letting you know that they have TM sclid and are standing by, interfere with you-- they wake you up. Conrad They shouldn ' t even do that--on backside passes un less they got something to give you , they shouldn ' t even call you. Cooper And then too , when they start handing ycu a bunch of flight plan updates and they want yoi:.. to do this and that and one man is trying to be-- ttey ar e try ing to keep one man real busy whil e the other sleeps , just doesn't work out. Configuration , i,,ell , just close your eyes . The best configuration t o s l eep is to turn all lights off and s l eep . I will say one
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