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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).
183 Cooper Conrad Cooper Conrad Cooper Conrad Conrad instruments- -like I said I was watching the i nstruments and they were sitting right dead center. ]ordo had that t hing pitched down 30 degrees and we didn ' t hardly over 2 degrees off that darn retro attitude.,and I wa s convinced we were doing a loop-- even watching the gages . That is the worst set of vertigo that I ever had in my life . And I had the dist inct feeling that I had just lit off the biggest after-burner I ' d ever haa a h0~d of and was going back straight west juat as hard as I could hold on . That's exactly the feeling. And everyone of them had fired . Yes,-. Yes . All over again and I really- - if you were doing it on just rate needles--well , doing it on rate needles wouldn't be as bad as doing it just on the ball without rate needles . Listen , boy doing it .-.... just on the ball- -that ' s just bad news . I always felt even in the trainer t hat bad news . °€:ON filDE ►4TIAL
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