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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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165 Conrad Cooper " FCSD Rep Cooper Conrad Cooper Conr ad Cooper Conrad Cooper FCSD Rep Cooper Conrad Cooper There's no doubt in your mind that they are firing. Yes . I think it 's almost more a matter of-- Did you fire t hem before you separated? We fired them just as we separated. We hit SEP- the spacecraft just as we-- Gordo counted them down 1, 2 SEP and I hit the SEP button and I don't know when he started firing. I fired just as you hit SEP. Yes. We came out clean as a whistle , I'll tell you that boy. We fired at the same second that we hit SEP. There wasn't any pitch or yaw of anything- -we just separated as smooth as a bell. And what I did , I--we held that on in there in direct and then switched over to rate command then a couple to 3 seconds later . Okay, how about the--why don't you describe the plumes a little bit here on the different thrusters and what you saw. Okay. Well, the only really- You don ' t see any plumes . You don't see any plumes off the OAMS and all you do is get the glow from them back there--you see CO ►~EIDE ►4TIAL
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