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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).
Cooper Conrad Cooper Conrad FCSD REP Conrad Cooper FCSD REP Cooper Conrad Cooper FCSD REP 171 to have a good feel for whether he has two aft f i re thrusters or one because boy, with those aft f i r i ng thruster are firing you're just like you're flying an airplane and you put the throttle to it. You really feel i t. You really feel it . Yes , it's really got acceleration. And you can hear i t --it was that high speed water jet type sound , it wasn ' t an explosive sound or a r oar or anything like that . I t was more of a :i swishing sound. More like a big hose. Like a couple of big hoses firing back there . Okay , you say you did fire the forward firing- you checked out the forward firing? Just a bleep . Right . What did you see here? Oh, man. You really see t he flames off that . . Yes , well, you don ' t , I don't really think you really see the flames , but it throws a grea t deal more light . It's a l i ght rather than flames--alight more than flames . Could you see a distinct plume?
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