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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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131 thing right now that we haven ' t mentioned befor e , I believe the Polaroid window f i l t ers we took were the greatest things we had along. Conrad Especially when we got on that drift in fl i ght . Cooper I ' d real l y r ecommend thos e very strongly, We put both of those up dim then down to where they com pletely block things out, turn the lights out , go to s leep and really have at it . Conrad One guy could open his up and real ly s ee the gr~'.ll1d well with them in the open conditi on , but i t was a circular hole that was small and with the filter on the other window it kept t he spacecraft r el ativel y dar k i f the other guy was t rying to sleep . Cooper Ri ght . What ' s this mission br iefing? Conrad I think that was supposed to be the t hing that we changed courses in midstream and we di d; we briefed each ot her and br ought one another up on what was going on and what we had written down . •CO~Ffl!J !PffM
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