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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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202 • and said, okay, let I s go through and re1:,lly see what we can power down here now. We had. gone through to really see wha.t we could powE•r down here now. We had gone through a sort of s econd power down checklist when he turned the squib batteries off -- Conrad Yes, you are right . Cooper .And we had tried several transmissions prior to this and had gone through and rechecked t his an tenna switch location. So, I'm kind 0f inclined to think that was not the fault of the Bquib bat tery being off. Conrad I really don ' t know. Then, we powered t he whole spacecraft down when we left it, so the1~e was no telling what was going on. I can•t speuk too highly of this checkoff list. As many t imes as we went over things in the simulator, boy, if you don't check these items off item by item, in the height of the excitement and the way it goes you are going to miss something. That is the way we went through these checkoff lists. We Ghecked them off by the numbers . .Anytime back here where I didn't do an item--where I left it op1m for some CO~~FIDE~fR'AL •
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