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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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188 Conrad Cooper Conrad Cooper Conrad Cooper Conrad FCSD Rep going through the terminator . Okay, r~tro-pack jettison , we covered . Reentry--our re~ntry was exactly like we had planned it. We f l :w single ring pul se down to 400K. At 400K-- 400K came on the time that Houston gav: us, the computer 400K guidance came in wit hin a second or two-- The roll bug came in right on the second. Right on the money. At 400K, then , I switched the attitude control sel ector to Rate Command . The RCS Ring B came already off and Ring A I took to Direct- -so it gave me singl e- ring Direct . I flew single- ring Direct then on down through the-- I think we covered the horizon adequatdy. Let's see-- Spacecraft was- -boy, I never even saw-• What do you recall on visual sight rings? co~~FlllEt~IIM:
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