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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
229 logged. We should be able to dig our way through them. Some of them were done on 35 mm film which was not requested by the man. It was done on the extra 35mm film that we carried with the 200mm lens so we may have some great shots. The relay of data was good. The voice recorder was used until it br oke . All the equipment operated. The Hasselblad camera operated fine. It never jammed. It took every picture and I think they were all good pictures. The tape recorder quit somewhere in the third day. I've got a log over her e that says voice recorder tapes. We had a tape that ran from launch to 01 days, 09 hours , 25 minutes , 00 seconds and we picked up the next tape at that time . It ran till 02 day , 13 hours, 10 minutes and we had another tape that we picked up at that time. It ran till the third day, 13 hours, 47 minutes. Tape 29 ran until the third day 17 hours , 15 minutes . There was another tape in there and that was the one that quit. We don't know how much we got on that one. That was the fifth tape. We ran 4 tapes and it quit on the fifth one. That fourth tape takes us through third day , 17 hours , 15 minutes . We took
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