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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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experinent or how it was to be done .
Cooper The only caution that we might throw in is right
here--
Conrad Stick to sequential times.
Cooper Ri ght, stick to sequential time exactly so that you
have running sequential time. You can :{eep track
of all the great number of things that they are
sending up . They might also consider wi1at--equipment
set up and stowage problems you have wh,m they ' re
sending these things up. We had a great deal of
equipment shuffling to do there. In general , it
worked out fairly well. All the equipm,mt worked
extremely well except 35mm camera which jammed several
times on . . . .
Conrad Okay, now the reason it jammed was that photo event
indicator,,which st.raps on the film tran:,port adapter
cable,,was too long when t he trigger was squeezed .
That had a tendency to jam the camera mnchanism ,
and I had to back it off out of the thrnad zone so
that it wasn ' t tightly in there. In zeJ~o g it would
continue to back itself out. I woul d gtit a couple
of pictures and then it wouldn ' t take a picture and
I woul d have to reach down and screw it in. I Not linked to a story yet.
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