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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
218 Monterrey, Mexico. It was covered by elouds , so we took Tampico instead. We took two pictures. 02 days, 15 hours, 16 minutes, 59 seconds, they asked for 020 which was James Connally AFB at Waco, Texas . It was obscured by clouds so I t hink we got the Dallas Air Naval Station and it wan sort of hurried but I think we got five picturHs. The next thing they asked for was on 03 days, 11; hours, 37 minutes , 28 seconds , we got our fir11t missile. I got five pictures. I won't guaranteo whether the missile was in it or not. Shortly aftHr that time , we got seven of Holloman . I was so tickeled to see the sled down there that I shot 6 pictures instead of four. At 03 days, 16 hours, 44 minutes , we took five pictures of Bergstrom. On that same pass, we t ook four pictures of the Cape and tha·; 1 s when we were tracking with radar . Cooper Yes . Conrad Then they gave us a target on 04 days , 12 hours, 08 minutes, 13 seconds of Los Palmos and we got four pictures in the mode that they wanted. On 04 days, 12 hours, 24 minutes , 02 seconds, we got Mozambique . I 1m not sure how well we got it, but I took six pictures down here so I guess we got it
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