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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).
158 polarization. I just can' t find any linear defini tion of it. When the sun is setting you can get s ome linear polarity in a vertical plane , but other wise I just can't see anything different one way than the other. I took the filter out and rotated it a number of times. I took the whole filter out. We saw a Zodiacal light . We saw-- Conrad Yes, we really did a couple of times--just could see it where night vision was right . We had t he lights out in cockpit and everything. Boy, you coul d really-,:- Cooper Pete spotted an interesting phenomenon that he pointed out one night that I had never seen before. It looked like an Aurora. It was an Aurora type l ight and it was a very bright green . It changed in color and was in the airglow layer. It actuall y changed the height of the airglow below . It brightened it above where it -- but below it, it seemed t o cut it down and make it more definitive. Where it wasn't it was kind of fuzzy along there and then where t his glow was the airglow kind of jumped up and was sort of chopped off very sharply. This was very bright . I don't know what it was . It was apparently some kind of a Aurora effect. We saw a lot of meteorites
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