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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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194 Cooper FCSD Rep Conrad Cooper yourself a nice steady ride. We never :Jaw a:ny thing that approached over 5 degrees oscillation. The nice thing about the control system is that i t is a simple matter to switch back and forth between direct and rate command in the uystem that we had set up . If you are damping and the damping gets to be t oo much of a t ask, or it gets more than you can damp, all you do is switch over to the ACME position on this one switch and i t will damp in the rate command . In that rate command, you have really good damping. You might as well have a system that will damp it right down to a gnat ' s eyebrow, and then you can switch back into direct , concentrate to what you are doing , and switch back and forth if you want to . Let's see , drogue-- Di d you get enough of an oscillation dw·ing reentry? If you looked out the window .._•as there enough trailing you that you could pr obc,bly damp by looking at this? Was there any possjbility to do this? I don ' t think the spacecraft is that un~table . We didn ' t have that much oscillation .
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