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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).
172 Conrad Cooper Cooper Conrad Cooper Conrad Cooper Conrad Cooper 10 . 3 Reentry Conrad COl-4FIDE~~TIAL No . No , not a plume as such, but just it reially lit up . You got a lot of lighting from it . Much more so than you did the-- It was distinct ive enough that it really made an impression on us . Let ' s see, the side f iring was really-- the thing that ' s surpri s i ng about the side firing wa s j ust as I-- you might anticipate, if you really stop ar.d thought about it but you don ' t get this in the trainer or anyt hing when you fire a side thrust-- A side thrust-- Yes , that was really weird. You really could feel that . It fired down , then up , then left and right then you raise up in the seat or you slide down in the seat or you go left in the cockpit or right in .the cockpit . You know that you real l y going to do this and you- And you can see all the debris and evecything coming t hrough- - swish! Yes , everything starts going sideways . And it ' s pretty funny . Okay , we ' re at paragTaph 10 . 3 reentry. Number 1 adapter separation. No doubt . Yes , there was no doubt but t here agai11 one of those ~t◄ FIDEblTIAL
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