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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).
FCSD Rep Anything at night? Cooper Coastline . On a clear ni ght, boy, the best thing that will show up is coastline . The grnatest light contrast is between your water and l and .. FCSD Rep Okay, I think that ' s enough on that . 9 , 2 Cabin Lighting Survey Cooper I ' ll let Pete comment on that one . Conrad Well , it was very straightforward, and we didn't get very many of them, mainly because WE! wound up in drifting flight . We took the measurements as advertised , except there is one little ~:litch in the thing. They wanted you to take a light measurement out , the , window, and they wanted you to c.o it in either the heads- up, or heads- down. In doi ng thi s , that said the horizon was in front of ycu. Now the light meter reading looking at the black sky just above the horizon in the daytime , which was the total sky, was usually a number around 11 . 5 . But looking at the earth, or just below the horizon, the meter reading was about 15 . 6. So, I al ways recorded two readings , the reading for the horizon and the black sky, because I didn't really know which one you wanted . With the spot meter the thing just turned out that way . Okay, we made one at 01+23+10. Gordo
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