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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).
159 B Conrad Cooper Conrad Cooper Conrad Cooper Conrad Cooper Conrad Cooper < 0~4'1Dcl~TIM • in Arabia and Africa. Yes . You could see those desert storms real clear- ly. The wind picking up and moving the sand al ong. Other days we saw the same areas just as clear with no wind . Beaut iful weather. It was interesting in those deserts to notice that you could really pick up the prevailing wind t rails. Yes. You know from the sand flow. The way the sand dunes were-- And which as I sort of remember back e1omewhere there was a lot of explanation about how the whole desert moves , you know, and you could r eally see these great --! mean for a hundred miles- hundreds of miles you could pick out t hese great obvi ous prevailing wind tracks in t he sand that just stretched for hundreds of miles . Yes . And again t his was in Egypt and south of Egypt - down in t hat area . Well, you could actually s ee by the c 1oud format ion--was odd, too . The t hing I noticed was,
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