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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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189 Conrad Cooper FCSD Rep Conrad Cooper the updated blackout at 16 + 14 and end of blackout at 21 +20 . He updated reverse bank as 19 + 25 for a bank lef t 54 , a bank r ight 68 , which was a change of 1 degree from 53 and 67 . He gave us drogue at 22 + 05 and main at 23 +48, That was the l at est updated quantity after retrofire . Okay, spacecraft oscill ations-- Could you tell anything visually? Man, that thing was like a rock coming in! I 'd been hearing about 40 degree yaw oscillations and the drogue and everything else. I f we had anything over 5 degrees- -maybe it is jus t me , but I don't think we had anything over 5 degrees. Let's start farther up in the reentry. After we got to 280 K, I was switching back and forth at this point from r ate to attitude. I would switch back to rate, and when I ' d see we had a little rate build up , I ' d tweak it , and then back to attitude and hold my attitude on the attitude needles. Then I 'd wait just a few seconds and switch back to r ate and t weak out the little rates set in, and go back to attitude- back and forth in this f a shion. On single-ring direct, I had more control authority, initially,
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