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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
21 6 this sloppiness . If these experiments are worth taking platform time and power to do . Conrad We've got to say here that there was so much diffi culty in finding these things and getting organized that we made onboard decisions to drop this track ing technique and we used only one method . We both looked for the target and when we found it, if we found it, I got Gordo pointed in the right direction and he put the reticle on it. From then on , he did the tracking and I took the pictures . I 'd coach him if he was off at all by looking in the lens . We never t ried the technique of me flyi::ig and taking the pictures at the same time . We didn't because the majority of pictures that they asked for in D- 6 were Questar pictures. I would never have been able to find it if we were off the leas·~ little bit because the pictures that they wanted f :l.lled the whole Questar l ens . We found that the lioresi ght was perfect so rather than mess things up and we - - Things were getting worst . To make 11ure that we got the pictures , we dropped thes e different track ing modes and we used the same t echniquEi everytime . Gordo tracked it in the r eticle and I coached him if he wasn't right on fo~ he picture. I told him c_Qb4f10Et'4TI L
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