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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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180 Cooper Conrad Cooper Conrad Cooper Conrad Cooper Conrad Cooper Conrad No . No . After we During us , but I started reenter ing we-- the reentr y and it was way , way behind did see it--now , I say the retro pack- it could have been the adap t er burning up . I don ' t know which one it was , because it was so far behind . There was some object way behind . It was some object , a large object , ree:~tering behind but it must have beer--what would you say? 5 , 6 , or 10 miles maybe? Oh , yes! I t was way up the path . I'd guess a good 5 or 10 miles . And it was up in the--let 1 s see, I was upside down , and it would have been--coming heads up--it would have been in the upper left- hand :lide . I n other words , it was reentering to our south and above us . It was entering on the south side of the orbit , and it was sli ghtly above our en•;ry and you could see our trail clear back to it . You could see our plasma jet went way , way back there . I
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