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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).
208 FCSC Rep Conrad I climbed on out over onto the nose sec·;ion. I felt no ill effects at all. I was kind of watch ing for it, being careful about it so I didn't f all in the water right off. We wanted to keep our suits dry. I climbed out on the no.3e section; and they wheeled one of the bigger raft·:i over around the flotation collar and I stepp~d on off over into the raft. Pete stepped on out. The only dampness we got on us was when the chop·per ca.me down pretty low. He was sitting there "blowing spray all over us . He had a heck of a time getting the horsecollar over to us for some reason or other. He finally got over. Pete took it and went up in it and dropped it back to me. I took it and went up in it . We had no ill effects in the horsecollar and no ill effects from there on . Did you crawl out of the left hatch too, Pete? Yes, Gordo got out and I powered the siacecraft down and turned off all the batteries end the rest of the switches and got out on the left side, and then with the flotation collar on, I climbed back over the right hatch and stood on the right side because it was plenty stable over there t'f?~~FtDEMTIAL' "'
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