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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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two minutes of record time . On 03 days, 16 hours, 37 minutes, 28 seconds we got our first missile , 423 Alpha. We have about a minute and 30 seconds of record time on that. 03 days, 22 hours , 48 minutes , 17 seconds we did 425A which was a Hawaii volcano measurement. I did Monique. It is the only one I could find sticking up out of the cloud. That's not active , but it 's a volcano . Maybe they will find something. On the rourth day, 14 hours, 57 minutes, 33 seconds we did a 424A which was a White Sands engine measurement. I got one minute of record time. It should have been a good run. 04 days, 16 hours , 28 minutes, .07 seconds we got the second missile, 423E. I don't think it 's on the .track. I don't think Gordo was looking at it. We may have been pointed at it right at the beginning, but I doubt it. On the fifth day , at 10 hours, 27 minutes, 00 seconds we did a 414 in East Africa, correlated with some 16mm magazine film. 414 was a desert land. It was done in the area of the Sahara Desert. On the sixth day, 08 hours, 43 minutes, 00 seconds I did a 417 in the East African/ Mediterranean. 417 was a water land measurement. f€0t'4 f:lf> Et\lTIAb
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