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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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burned out again and then he was gone . We could have t r acked him through second stage. If you are going to get hi m on IR you better get him coming off the pad because after that you can ' t follow them very well with the naked eye. We had two entirely different lighting conditions . The first day we had them against the clouds and the second day we had them against the land and water. Cooper We had him against that one string of clouds. We lost him going against those clouds . If you had a solid land water background I think you could fo l low him the whole way without any problem . Conrad The f irst day he didn ' t come up out of the clouds but he did to us. You know it was clear at Vandenburg but the clouds were close enough to cut off our angular view. First , we saw him when he-- Cooper But we had good lighting conditions in spite of his being above the clouds. The lighting wa s such that we could foll ow him real easy. Conrad But the second day I was looking right at the pad , and I saw the engine light . There ' s no two ways about it, I saw the engine light or whatever the fire was coming out of the hole . I don ' t know how they fired them , but f r om the time that flame was ~ l'~EIQ6~,TIA1s
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