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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).
149~cONEIDftsl!IAL rest of it . We never got more than a mile from him, so we got that 3000 foot transient but we never got the 30,000, What was the transient at 3000 feet like? Do you remember, Gordo? On radar when the REP went farther than 3000 feet , I don't think there was any transient to speak of. Cooper I didn't notice any particular transient, or any noticeable one at all. I was looking for it. Conrad Yeah. We did the-- Cooper I had it damped pretty well . Conrad We never did get the radar to run for 3 hours, so we didn ' t get test 5, test 4, no correlation between range and range rate display and visual observations at short range, they all worked very well. Test 6, we observed the normal transients that you'd expect, just as advertised on here, and I also noticed that· the lock- on light cycled on and off, on and off, when I was in a standby mode after warmup. Radar test 7, stand by to ON, you have to get Gordo on that . Conrad Test 8 . We dashed over there the first time and as soon as we were within about 260 to 270 miles, the radar locked up on 248,66 miles . I got the first digital readout on address 69 and it read down to
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