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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).
“Cape Kennedy”2 pages
226 It's on the recorder, At 06 days, 08 ·tours, 44 minutes , 40 seconds I did a 418 whic.h was mountains . Those were desert mountaine in East Africa. Again I got some record time. On the seventh dey, 09 hundred hours, 00 minutes , 00 seconds 419 I got the Ascension cali bration except it was done in drifting flight over Carnarvon if I'm not mistaken, And that is the end of D- 4/ D- 7. Updating techniques and communications procedures were exactly the same as covered. Equipment set up and usage was very straightforward. The checkoff list was good. The cooled spectrometer checks worked out fine over Carnarvon. We had a go the first time. We never did make the alinements. The only thing we looked at with the cooled spectrometer was the REP. The REP measurements were mad3 1 hour and 50 minutes after liftoff. We had a go at Carnarvon. I went to PROP GAGE-EXPIDRIMENTS, RAD- 1, Cold I R- ON, IR- ON, power-ON, transmitte::c...oN, ·recorder-OFF. Shortly thereafter we had trouole wi th the scanner. At 2:05 we were still having trouble with the scanner. We were having trouble wi th the platform aline. We were in th,~ process I
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