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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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- •• 142 Cooper FCSD Rep Cooper FCSD Rep Cooper already gone through all the sequences ~1d everything by then. Okay, let's see. Designated targets-- I think you have covered that pretty much. Yes , all the targets . The targets that they have designated versus what •• Yes . Okay, well the designated targets- - There are some al ternate targets right in the are1:.s here that I ' ve already mentioned. I mentioned a c:ouple of cases there that could possibly be bettnr targets than the ones that they selected, although there is nothing wrong, particularly, with thr, ones that they selected . I personally liked a little bit better than on target 212 , or Sequence 212 , this point of land . I thought a little more distinctive was the point of land that came out of a l ittl e town called San Pedro, just north of there on the same lake . That 's spmething to consider . It 's a point of land that is quite distinct because it is fairly heavy. A big mountain sort of c:ame right down into the lake and dropped off into it , and it · was quite a prominent point of land . ::t is very shear and precise, whereas, it is a l i ·;tle bigger point. Although, from a great distanc,~ farther out,
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