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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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219 pretty ~ell. At 04 days, 13 hours, 29 minutes I got Savannah. Municipal even though they were asking for something else and that was covered and then I t r ied to get them a picture of this Blantyre Airdrome at 04 days , 13 hours, 58 minutes, 50 seconds and all I got was the terrain around it, because i t was covered by clouds . I t ook a couple of pictures down there anyhow, because this was IR film , and I thought they might want to look at Africa. At 04 days, 15 hours, 56 minutes , 53 seconds we got W!iite Sands again on a 424a. I got 5 pictures . Then we got the best one of all 04 days, 15 hours, 04 minutes, 40 seconds . We got 6 pictures of the USS Lake Champlain. Cooper Let me interrupt one thing here . I think you said 15 hours on White Sands . Conrad Did I? White Sands was 14 hours , 56 minutes , 53 seconds . Then we picked up the California missile on. the .next one. I don't think I got any pictures of that. We saw the missile real clearly but Gordo didn ' t get on track so I don ' t think we got the missile in the picture- - Every one of these pictures that I mentioned are Questar except the Savannah Municipal which was on a 200 mm. Then we came up ee ►◄ rlDE~~TIAL
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