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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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FCSD Rep Cpnrad 11.4 Visual Acuity Cooper FCSD Rep Conr ad 233 Japan, Japan weather, night pies , stars, Milky Way, thunderstorm and lightning, something village , China, something Shanghai , Marshall Islands , tropical storms , oil well fires in Africa, geol ogy in India, Tibet, Solomon Islands , sequences across Arabia, New Guinea, China coast, Islands due west of someplace can ' t • I read it -- West Coast Africa, I cant read any of Gordo's wr~ting, some other islands , 102 Rev Austral ia, Canaries , S- 5 no . 48 -- wonder what that was -- East Africa, very hazy, African geology, Cape Kennedy , ice particles , and that's it . Pretty varied (laughter) . That ' s a lot of film there , I ' ll tell you. Greed on Tibet? No , that was Gordo -- he real ly goes for that Ti beten country up ··there -- that I s where he sees all his goodies . It's pretty clear and pretty· up there . and As tronaut Visibility (S- 8/D-13) and Vision Test (M-9) Okay . Why don ' t we go -- Okay -- updating techni ques and communications pro cedures. Again remain the same as before . Equipment set up -- the thing we had there , of course, was a CE1NFPDE ►◄lt>6.i:
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