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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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the point they had might have proved to be better. Maps--Boy, we ran the gamut on them, but in general, the Apollo maps we got were just stinking. They were lousy and they didn ' t give you any lead-ins to where you were trying to find these things, and if it hadn ' t been for Harry KazU1DA. ' s map over there and our regular orbital map , we never would have be gun to have found these places . We couldn't have possibly told where they were . And the Apollo maps that they have on here, these colored lithograph types gizmoes things, are just worthless . They are not worth the powder to blow them up with . There are several real typical examples of why these maps are so bad . For instance , right here, just on the better map of the group , they have the Canary Islands, but they don't even have all of the islands in the group. The island that you pick is sitting way up here at the corner of the map and you don ' t know what's leading you into there, or whether there ' s maybe another island just right by that one . You need a bigger scale map like this one . That was a little too big a scale perhaps , really, but that ' s the kind of map you need to really point out what you need coming into it, and s omewhat of a more reasonable
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