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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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was just keeping it damped to zero. We -weren 't firing thrusters too overly often. You could see them fire now and then , but it wasn't a great task for them to fire at all . I really thought the whole reentry was quite stable and at no time did we have a;ny real oscillations . Conrad Somewhere in there Ring A ran out of fuel . But I am almost convinced that-- Cooper Well , let me say r ight here now Pde . I way flying the thing . Ring A didn't run out of fuel as long as I was flying. We still had control . Now you are talking about down after drogue deploy. I ' m talking about during reentry. Until the time that we went to dual-ring RCS , we still had fuel left in Ring A. Conrad Yes, I know we did . Cooper Okey, I just wanted to make that clear on the record . Conrad It ran out somewhere below 65 ,000 f eet . Cooper Yes , by those f igures you got yesterday, it looked like we still had fuel in Ring A sometime af t er we br ought Ring Bon, which was at 60 , 000 . Right?
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