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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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159 A Cooper Cloud Coverage . We had varied cloud coverage t hroughout the flight . Conrad Boy, I think we saw every phenomenon you could think of with t he clouds. Cooper Just about everyt hing you could t hink of. We saw typhoons , and hurricanes , and-- Conrad We saw well defined eyes in thes e tropical storms and others without- -with such ci rrus cover t hat you couldn' t define an eye. We saw some of the most fant asti c thunder s t orms we have ever seen. Cooper We saw hundreds and hundr eds and hundreds of miles of t r ememdous big thunder storm lines with squall lines going across it . Conrad Near Sout h America. Cooper Had at times as many as 15 to 20 thunderstorms that were lighting up all at the same time . Conrad I think I have some good 16 mm camera coverage of t he thunderstorm lightning at night . Cooper And these are--then we saw--then we had great expanses over the same areas of excel lent weather, clear weather. We saw a lot of dust storms
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