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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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170 Conrad Cooper Conrad COt~fHIDEt~TIAb used all the translation thrusters on:.y one little splurt of it on the forward, i n other words the forward firing thruster- the smal l forward firing thruster , but they were all very,· very positive and you got very defi nite die1t i nct action out of them. And you really gc,t a feeling of real accel eration out of those aft f i r i ng ones, I thought. I felt l i ke you really were really had a big afterburner lit off when you lit those things. Yeah, man, I would have liked to have some more kinds to mess around-like turn off thruster 10 or something like that, and burn a couple of feet on one thruster because i n the s i mulator you can't hold it in Rate Command. I think you probably can in the actual spacecraft. Well, I don ' t know whether you can or ~an ' t but t hink that the difference between 2 thruster operation and 1 thruster operation is going to be apparent to you just like that and the3e guys i n F0D are making this big deal about :1aving to burn after separation from the booster and maybe only have one thruster or anything and I think anybody who has flown that thing once :Ls going I
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