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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).
13 Cooper .. Conrad Cooper Conrad Cooper Conrad • You can't use the FDI 's or the 8- ball as a reference in the mission simulation because you have this gimbal flip which just gives you fits . We didn't use Ra te Command very much, mainly just for the burns . In fact, t he burns are the onl y times we used Rate Command. I used the Dir ect system several times and I thought the Direct was really good. It was good and crisp and you had good authority with it. I had the impression that the spacecraft was a lot more stable vehicle in Di rect than it was in the simulator . Tmt' s right . In t he simulator you tend to sit there and go too much and go too much . When Gordo'd stick a shot of Direct in to go someplace, it never showed up in another axis . An equal shot i n the other direction would stop it r i ght now. Yes. The effects momentum of the spacecraft didn ' t seem to be as great in flight as they were i n the ~f:HDEt◄TIA ~
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