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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).
157 Cooper Conrad Cooper Conrad Cooper it was the clearest picture of the Cape. Boy, that was beautiful. You coul d see every de tail. You could see every causeway and every street, everything that rode around the Cape, and buildings all over the Cape. All that was on the same day but it was another orbit . Celestial -- Gosh, we coul d see seventh magnitude stars-- Mercury never had a window. Our windows were filthy . When we l ifted off it just absolutel y unforgiveable how dirty they were. Yet there were many times the magnitude of visibil ity the Mercury windows were . We could see easil y seventh magnitude stars. Well, in Orion we coul d see all seven stars in the belt and we could see cl usters down the side of the leg .. I've never seen those clusters before . I have seen big bl owups of them, but you could definitely see two good size cl usters. Celestial - -We saw a lot of planets and we saw the moon under all kinds of con ditions. We saw the sun. We took Polaroid testings on the sun. We ran the Polaroid fil ters at differ ent angles. It looks to me like the sun has circul ar •
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