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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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223 Conrad All right we started out on D- 4 on 01 day , 11 hours, 40 minutes, 15 seconds wi th Mode 410. Let me just read them and look them up for you. 410 was a star measurement . No camera was required. I have down here 410 and i t was done so i t must have been Deneb. Anyhow it's annotated on the voice tape and it was a 410. Pitch angle was 70 degrees. The yaw was O degrees and t he location was Carnarvon , Austral ia. We put 4 mi nutes of D- 4/D- 7 data on the onboard tape . Okay at 01 deys , 11 hours, 48 minutes , 00 seconds we did 411 whi ch was a night. land measurement , 90 degree pitch down. The experiment was made whi le over an experiment station. No camera was required. And it was done pas t . Sydney·. It was done for 3 minutes . Okey, at 01 deys, 14 hours , 14 minutes , 00 seconds we did measurement No . 420 . We started to do measurement No . 420 whi ch was an I R cloud blanket swee~ and the place they gave us had no cl ouds. We di dn't do i t . So at 01 deys , 14 hours, 42 minutes , 00 seconds we did 410A. That was Vega and I have it marked as Vega. We got some recorder time on i t . It should be correlated. I know what i t was . It wasn't 410 . This was
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