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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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really pleased. I think our windows w~re real l y stayed rel ativel y cl ean . We built up a slight coating on them, or something. Conrad I think everything we built up on them was on there at the beginning, Cooper But most of it was there to begin with. Our windows were s o much better than Mercu::-y. There wasn't even any comparison . The thingn you coul d see out of them were just fantastic. \/e 1 re going t o have to crank up the pl anetarium stars much higher, in fact , because we saw so man~, more stars t han we saw at the decreased Mercury values in the planetarium, It was very confusing, which was very pleasing. I think it's really groat . But , even with thi s better window definition , when you crossed the terminator from day to dark or dark to day there's a very decided confusing area in there where you have absolutel y no attitude reference at all out the window. In fact, I tri ed E, couple of times when we were going through the teirminator , to be compl etel y blackened down, to have r..o lights on in the cockpit, and nothing to refl ect outside; yet when you crossed the terminator CQ~,FID~f}.~TIAL •
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