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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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182 Conrad Cooper FCSD REP Cooper Conrad Cooper Conrad It really was . However , if you don ' t have full instrunHmt panel, I ' d recommend you forget it . Because i:~ you don ' t have an 8 ball and rate gyros and a clarn good rate da.mping--well, that ' s not true.if you've got an 8- ball and r _a te gyros , then you could fire them just as well in .Jirect system as well as Rate Command; although , think , you could hcndle them in direct with no problem. Do you think you nee~ both the rate gyrcs and the platform? I do . Yes . I would strongly recommend that for a night retro you not try them on purely rate gyros because you just--even the little-- And the reason-- The RCS a ttitude system disrupts your night vision so much out there that getting all squar =d away for i t-- j ust about the t i me you I re getting right in to retro attitude there if you have to f:ire a thruster or two you ' d completely lose you attitude- I think the other big thing is tha t that is absolutely the world ' s biggest "vertigo gi.ver" , because you are really g sensitive and when those retros go off if you don ' t hav11 the whole smear of 00MFIOE~~TIAl'
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