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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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206 Conrad Cooper Conrad Cooper Conrad Cooper @OMFIDEl>~TI-Al that little spacecraft could get mighty nauseous if you really had rough seas. We did have just a t winge of RCS fumes in there . We had sealed it off at 2, 000 feet and it had only bui] up to a pound by the time we got en the water, so that secondary o flow rate ar.. 2 d o2 high rate is just not putting out a hecli: of a lot of flow. But it helps. I think you really had t o really sniff to--you had to be hunting for it to smell the fumes. Once we got the snorkel open again on the wat er and had the cabin fan and the two suit :~ans running, the smell disappeared shortly thereafte::.- . Yes , it was nice and fresh. I t got to be nice and fresh in there. As Gordo says , we wer e perspiring lightly but ou~ best bet there was we were getting good flow in the suits from the t wo fans with the snorkel open. I might recommend at this point for later crews that this~ a good point to take that doggone bl ood pressure bulb and pump up the water system and drink all the water you can drink right there . .,
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