Documents / Official release
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).
215cCQMAO£MIA L would screw it in too tight so I would get one more picture off and then it would jam, and I would back it out a little bit. We finally got to where it worked pretty good . Cooper But this still is an equipment discrepancy that should be-- Conrad Yes , and equipment discrepancy and it a lmost cost us a couple of good pictures . Especially, when we hadn't found the ship about four times and all of a sudden the camera was jammed.... wall light fit in there . I might say here that this is D- 1, D- 2 , and D- 6. D-1 we got, D-6 we got quite a bit of , and D- 2 we did nothing. What we are t alking about is the camera equipment associated with D-1 and D- 6 . Cooper Acquisition Techniques-- They varied. Acquisition techniques varied depending on whether it was a celestial or ground target . Again we can' t emphasize ~nough to do experiments where you have to point to certain places to find things the only way to do it in a professional manner is to have a plat form up and use the pointing angles. It makes the task a thousand times easier and it eliminat es all
Not linked to a story yet.
Official release, from the pursue collection. The PDF is mirrored here; the original link is under it. 325 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.