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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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Conrad Cooper Conrad Cooper Conrad Cooper • 195 I don't think you have to worry about Lt , to tell you the truth. I really wasn't aware of any oscillations at all. Gordo says he was damping. For all I know we rode in there free. He speaks highly of my damping. The first time I really noticed anything was when we got on the drogue , and I didn't have a whole lot to do. but to look out t he window. There would have been some oscillation, but it would be kind of interesting to ride one down and not damp it, to see how it would do. I really doubt if you'd get very large amplitudes or very much-- Not until you get down there below a 100 ,000. I don't think this is true of a rolling reentry. That's why we never were in favor of a rolling reentry. On the simulator the thing goes wild on a rolling reentry. But , I think, a s long as you hold a steady bank angle , whether i~ is full left or 90 or whatever you hold, I think the thing is really stable. It sure felt that way to me. It felt to me that it is a good stable vehicle. · Now at drogue deploy-- I very deliber ately deployed the drogue at 70 ,000 feet. 60►-•Ft&tt<!T~AL
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