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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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134 • it was magazine 4, exposure 10, expo:rnre 11 . 213 was Lake DePoopo in South America and here again the l ake was fairl y distinctive although this was .._a shallow water lake - the other lake was i n the mountains in a fairl y deep water - crater-type lake, whereas this Lake DePoopo was a flat land lake fai r ly shallow , the lake was not the same shape as on the map that we had of it . In fact, the map we have is quite a poor map and the isl and that the point i s on , Is l a de Panza , is not the same shape as the island that is shown . It is the onl y i slanc it can be, i t is not exactly, quite different in reality than it is here on the thing. The island is changed in shape, but being a shallow water l ake you can see that the lake could very r eadily change with the water level - - change shape with the water level ; and these islands could very readily be modified fairly readily just by dredging or hacking away at them . It was obviously the only lake in tha t im mediate area that i t could be and it had the same general shape as this lake . And it had the river leading in. The lake was f airly distinctive, and fairly easy to find, the point was easy enough to get onto , and I got these two pictures of it . Light •
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