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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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227 of turning and I missed Agena BUS ARM EXPERIMENTS and I missed jettisoning the door on the cold IR. That's my fault and I jettisoned the door on the cold IR at 02 hours , 16 minutes, 15 seconds after liftoff. I started taking the first REP measure ments and unfortunately it was at 2500 feet. I felt that it was still readable so that is where the data starts. We got some black sky along side the REP with the cold IR. The radiometric and IR spectrometer alinements were r ight on the button . So was the cold IR. We had no trouble with the power down procedures. It was very straightf orward. We never did get to do the cryogenic gas lifetime updates . We never got the Milky Wey with that cooled sensor. We did get the void black space with the cooled sensor. We got the Zodiacal light . We got most of the star .measurements . We got the moon. We got the night land measurements. No, well,· we got the numbers that I mentioned. I just don ' t remember all of them. I did not get a:n:y cloud illumination with lightning. I did get dey land measurements . I got the Ascension calibration. I got an IR cloud blanket sweep , but I did not get the cumulus clouds . C~ ►4EIDEt◄TIAL
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