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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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220 Cooper Conrad FCSD REP Conrad with object 65 which was this small island off Brazil and that was 04 days , 16 hours, 51 minutes, 25 seconds and we have four lovely pictures of the first island which is 120 miles above the corr ect island . We have four more pictures of the correct island . We finally found it . Here is the map problem that we remarked about earlier . Here then i s the only one that I really messed up. 05 days, 11 hours , 43 minutes , 41 seconds was the Cape radar test, and I had the darn lens on l/250th and I should have had on l/30th. I don ' t think those 4 pictures will come out. And that ' s it for D- 6. You mi ght mention here the tracking of these missi l es? No strain. You ' ve got to get on them right away. When Gordo finally saw it the second time it wa s just to far away to get him in PULSE, When they come r ight of f the pad you can see them all right . It gets harder the higher they get. Especi ally the second stage. I got the first missile al l the way to first stage burnout. Then I was behind hi m. I kept seeing a piece of the contrail here and ther e but I really didn ' t catch up with him until he passed our altitude . Just about that time he
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