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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).
144 • picture . I think the prime example we had of any difficulty in map locat ion was not on the Apollo maps themselves , but i t is exactl y the srune kind of thing. What was that one that had the lit tle i s land? Conrad Lake Depoopo . Cooper No, no . It had one tiny l i ttle i sland right off t he coast and it wasn't on the Apollo mapB . It was the-- Conrad It was a D- 6. That was that thing off BrE,zil. That's all it was . It was a chart of water with an i sland in the middle of it . It turned out that right at the edge of the chart was another island . We took the wrong island first because , heck, it looked l ike there wasn ' t another island-- Conrad I'm just making this comment because it will apply to the Apollo map making, as well, and this was an ideal example of how t o really screw somebody up . Cooper We a l so got another isl and right up there . We got it and we were sail ing along thinking that was a good shot we made of that island, and we fooked down and I said, "Hey, look down there. What ' s that. That ' s another one." I swung over on it , and he said , "Let's get it , too ." So , we discovered
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