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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).
199 chute deployed we weren' t even swinging or anything. Like Gordo said, boy, when tha t thing came out of the reefed condition, it was perfectly circular around the bottom. We looked at movies of these things and we've seen them collapsed on one side, billow out, and collapse, and everything. It didn't do that . That chute came out, stayed perfectly circular. Whenever the number of seconds went by, and the thing dereefed, it dereefed per fectly circular. It never breathed, never oscillated , never swung or anything. Cooper And we never turned on it either. Conrad We never turned or anything. The only oscilla tion we got the whole time was when we went to two-point. We got the see-wawing action. That was it. We went straight into the water. The chute almost landed on top of us. Cooper Okay, on Rand R separation--we might cover that after drogue deploy--it is just exactly like it looks in the sequences . You see all the whole smear trunneling out there, the great long Rand R section going out, and all the lines feeding out , and then the main opens, and the Rand R COMFIDEfa~TIAL •
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