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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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178 Cooper And the whole window area was completel;r obliter ated by flames. When the retros go off you're just in a big barrel of flames--because the whol e thing is just covered by flames. Conrad I wasn't even aware of that. I didn't (~Ven-- I 'd have said that we didn't see any flume at all. Cooper Well , we had everything at full bright-•• Conrad I guess I had my eyes locked on the instruments- Cooper Well , I did , too , but I also was going to look and see what it looked like out the window there and I noted that everytime one of them went off you got tremendous flame coverage which surprised me because I didn I t think you would . I thc,ught maybe you'd see the glow from it but I lad a distinct feeling that the whole-- that tl:.e whole flame expanded to the point where you felt like it--maybe you just felt like it was so bright it just lit up the outside that much, but I had a distinct feeling that you really had flames all over when they went off. Conrad Really that 's the high light of the flight in my mind is going down through that-- watching that TR clock count down and going through TR - 1
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