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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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154 Conrad We never saw any of the scheduled ones but you ' ve got to have the platform to see them. They gave us angles like pitch 82° and yaw 45. You're looking at the black sky. You haven't any idea of where you're looking. You have to have the platform. One thing that we did find, if their platform point ing at satellites was actuall y the pointing informa tion they gave us for the ground objects, why we woul dn ' t have had any trouble finding them. Cooper The pointing information that we got from the ground was excellent. Conrad We hacked that time on the second and we were really pointed with the platform up and we were looking right down the pipe at whatever it was that they were wanting us to look at . The only reason we didn't see it is we couldn't make it out. But we were l ooking at it. Cooper Satellites--There was only one time when Pete and I thought we saw something and we didn't have time to identify it . We were in drifting flight and we never could identify it. I don ' t even know if it was a satellite. So many things are going by when you're drifting that it's difficult to say. Geo graphical--We saw millions of geographical details:
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