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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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164 Cooper Cooper Conrad FCSD Rep Cooper FCSD Rep Conrad Cooper FCSD Rep Conrad Cooper Conrad Cooper thrusters, we were also firing attitude thrusters and the attitude thrusters you could see all of them. I don't know whether you s ee the glo..;- off the af t firing thruster or not . You certainly can feel t hem firing. You can hear them fire . It's not annoying or anything. Somewhere we ought to say here--you said you could hear all the thrusters firing. Every one of them. Now, this is with the helmet on or off? Off . Off . How about with it on at separation? I bad the impression tbat at separati)n tbat I could hear them firing . The aft thrunters with the helmet on and tbat is- - Yes , I did , too . Simply because everybody said they couldn ' t hear them. I thought I could hear the- -
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