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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).
“Cape Kennedy”2 pages
213 FCSD REP Conrad Why don ' t we wait? We did that portion of D- 1 that was.. . . Then the next D- 1 we did was Mode 2. This was done on Venus at 02 days 13 hours 00 minutes . We took 4 pictures of Venus at l / 30th of a second on magazine 11 which was the 8443 IR Film. It was taken through the Questar lens visually with reticle tracking. Let me check the book to see if that is all . D- 1 , Mode 2 we did at 02 days 13 hours 20 minutes, on Alpha Centauri using magazine 9 which wa s 3401 Film. We used the Questar lens , took 4 pictures and that completed the D-1 Experiments. Let ' s run through the updating techniques and communications procedures that ar e used with the other experiments and I ' ll only cover them once and that ' s this time . We send up the title of the experiment , the GMT of the experiment , the sequence number if required , a Mode number if required and then any other require ments went in the remarks section. Things such as pitch , yaw , up , down , filmspeeds , and delta times or anything else went in remarks . I think that this procedure worked extremely well . Ther e was never any confusion on our part as to what Gelat,JOENltAt
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