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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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187 you can see both stars passing under you and the earth passing under you. I can't figure how you get all these odd refl ections in there. There's a period of time when everything just gets completel y jumbled and it's a real dim gray area there you ' re going through just for a few seconds where you have absol utely no visual reference at all . You ' re doing beautifully on a night horizon on the airglow and al l of a sudden "zunk" you're into this cottony i ll-defined mess, and you ' re getting all kinds of odd refl ections and all kinds of odd l ight patterns, and then "zoom" here you suddenl y have day reference on the ground . That period of time is a very poor time to have to do any kind of out-the- window atti tude control . And it obviously is a very confusing l ight period because this is what confuses the hori zon scanners, t oo. The times when you do get the- when we had that one horizon scanner that was really screwing up . It was overl y sensitive , of course, and it woul d just drop out . Every terminator we went through it would drop off the line. And even our no. 2 dropped off, initial ly there, a few times going through the terminator. You get a few ignores
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