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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).
200 can goes on off. It looks just like it does in those sequential drawings . Main chute deploy- we ' ve already covered. We anticipated the landing attitude as being kind of a jar. It is kind of a whip action there, more than anything. As long as you are braced for it, it is no problem. And then on landing-- to me that was a su.l'.'prise, because on landing I could hardly believe we had hit . It was so easy. We didn't go under water, didn't splash water, or anything. The windows were clear when we hit . I could see the water as we hit . I could see the chute. When I pur..ched the chute jettison , the chute just floated c-ut in front of us and slightly off to one side•. The windows were clear . They had some conde•nsation on them but not bad. We could see out of them very clearly. We condensed them over a little more just breathing on the inside, I gue,ss. But when the frogmen got there the windows were still clear enough that they came up anc. got up close to the window and we gave them the, thumbs up . They visually got our thumbs up signal with no problem. The only abnormality was that after we got on the water AIR BOSS apparently was not 1 '"CO~ ◄ FIDE~4Tt"L
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