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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
231 Conr ad Let me just maybe gi ve you a synopsis here of some idea of what we probably have down here on the log, and , just looking at the pages here -- started out pretty generally, lot of Ba.ha California, few in Mexico , Island chains, sunrise , couple of shots down of Saigon, Tibet , Tibet , China, Japan , Arabian desert , Tibet , Tibet, China, Arabia, Hanoy, Phillipine Islands , desert dunes , Oasis , African continent , hurricane , coast line , Cairo , Gibraltar, Tripoli, Apollo landmark, Mexico , U. S. California coast, Cape , large storm on an S- 6 at 01 day 17 hours 12 minutes , Florida, large thunder storms over Antigua, Ba.ha, California, Islands and coast, large circular swirls and clouds , river mouth in Shanghai , Japan, typhoon by Japan , Tibet , Tibet , Formosa, Cairo , an S- 6 mode 07 , Florida, Cuba (if I can mention the word), Guaymas clouds , Houston coastal weather, tropical storm - Central America, Lake Titticaca, Arabia, China, earache , North Australian Islands, Africa, Cairo, Tibet, Pete (laughter) , Apollo landmarks , Cyclonic clouds , Hawaiian Islands , Hawaiian Islands , Iran, Turkey, Tibet, Glazier, Tibet , Hong Kong, Nile , Florida, Cuba, West Coast, South America -- gee , hes I got a lot of pictures of me in here -- Pete -- tropical
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