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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).
15 • Cooper Conrad Cooper Conrad Cooper Direct uses quite a bit of fuel also. We did use a little fuel t hat one day. We were doing so many experiments in a row that we had to very rapidly get the spacecraft back to a zero zero- zero or a pitch down 30 posi tion. When you track one of these targets and come through the nadir and keep on going, boy, you're really smoking towards a rearward direction. You're sitti ng i nverted BEF. That's r i ght, you ' ve got rates built up going away from you and you ' d have to use Direct to stop those rates, get yourself moved all the way back up here and s top them again. Maybe it'd be so tight that you'd use Di rect to get down and start on it, and then switch to Pulse and track in Pul se and then r i ght back up and start doing something else. Well, we di d eat up a lot of fuel that day, but we got everything done that day. We hit darned near all targets. Di rect i s a real responsive , real fine way to maneuver. 60t~Fl0Et.t:tAt
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