Documents / Official release
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).
138 FCSD Rep I agree , incidentally on all the Apollo landmarks landmarks we ' ve got here . I ' m not sure I agree , in general, with any of the Apollo landmarks that they havp . I think there are lots more distinctive l and mark features around the country. I think that their idea of selecting a point of land down in the water is good, but I think that there are numerous places around the world where , say a large river comes out and intersects with the ocean naybe at a point , at a point in a river and things ,f this type , would be even more distinctive or an inter s ection of a river and the ocean , or an intersection of something in the type of causeways i n Miami or the causeways here at the Cape where the;r cross the water with a very prominent water landma:~k . They ' ll give you a very accurate telescopic poin-; to sight. on , whereas the particular points of lancl that they have selected are not really accurate type sighting points for real accuracy, I don ' t feel . They're r easonably distinctive, but I don ' t thin}: any--nearl y a s distinctive as a lot of other areas around the country that could be selected. Okay, why don ' t you look through these things her e and see if there is anything there that you haven ' t covered. €ewfl~if>.f"pl,Ofl
Not linked to a story yet.
Official release, from the pursue collection. The PDF is mirrored here; the original link is under it. 325 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.