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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).
207 Because once you hit the carrier, the medics aren •t going to let you drink for about a 3- hour period while they run all their little diddies on you. They don't care how thirsty you are or how bad a situation it is . So, I would recommend that you just fill up with water right there. Conrad The most uncomfortable and the hottest we got was in the nelicopter ride back, which was 35 minutes. It was hotter than blazes in that helicopter. We still had the suits on. We could have gotten out 0£ them, but we had gotten out fairly dry to begin with, and we just decided to-- Cooper We decided, as a matter of principle, we were going to arrive on the carrier with our suits on. Conrad We arrived in uniform on the carrier rather than in a bathrobe. Cooper Besides that, we didn't have patches on our bath robe. Conrad Right. Cooper Okey, thatls all I think of. One thing, after we got out--just to cover briefly- -when the swimmers got the flotation around the spacecraft we decided we would open my hatch. We opened the hatch and
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