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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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196 Conrad You might put down that I was reading t:1e check list off, and I called stRndby for 70,000, which is our point to put the second ring on HCS rate command, and we were going to put Ring Bon . I s aid stand by for 70,000, and away went the drogue. Cooper I reached down, uncovered the cover on :.t, and punched it out right at 70 K. I might Hay here that the drogue went out beautifully, it squidded a couple of times--a typical supersonic drogue f ashion. No hard squidding. Conr ad I ' m not sure that it stayed reefed. Did. it? Cooper Yes, it did . Conrad It did a couple of gyrations up there . I wasn't really sure what it was. I don ' t think it stayed reefed for 16 seconds. Cooper Yes, it did. It stayed reefed for 16 seconds. Conrad It looked to me like it flew out and opened. Cooper It came out and opened in the reef condition. That was that squidding you saw . I t opened in the reef condition and then it squidded 3bout three times in the reef condition and then dereefed fully opened . It was as stable as a roc:ce. And I fully anticipated some of the lines we:c-e .,§Q±!f lDEt ◄ TtAL •
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