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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).
13360t H@l8 Et tlh\L half of them . Most of them occurred during my sleep time . Cooper Okay, the next one was Sequence 212 . And that is on Lake Winemarka and it was a point out in the l akes in Brazi l --down in the Br azilian area, and it ' s a l arge l ake . There are no other l akes in the immediate area . The l ake was very , very distinctive . You could see it from some 6 or 700 miles away very clearly--big, heavy jungle all around the lake and the point that they selected was the finger of a little peninsula out in the lake in a particular point right on the peninsula . I thought the lake was easy to find , the peninsula was relati vely easy to find from quite a distance out . There was no problem getting on it . It was a fairly disti nctive landmark . The light was fairly low - it was late in- the- day type pass, and the light was fairly low over in the West , but no particular problem getting on it , holding on t he target , and ident i f yi ng it . Apollo l andmark--l et ' s see , I took 1 , 2 , 3, sequences of pi ctures over that . And Apollo landmark 213 was the next one , and I wonder if they want the magazi ne and sequence number s . Okay , on 212 it was magazine 1 and exposure 62 , 63 , and 64 . On Apollo landmark 213
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