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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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234 vision tester and photometer and the f :Lrst thing there on the photometer -- I got t he firs t day measurement with the photometer which required a 30 degree sun angle and this was really -- had been given a loca tion to put the sun on ,the -- Gordo 1 s nide of the instrument panel to assure that we had the right sun angle - - okay, we made that measurement. We had the photometer in the window whenever we went by the S- 8/D- 13 target -- we got t hose measur Eiments , but we didn.1 t get the last day photometer mea~iurement be cause we were in drifting flight and di dn't have the fue l to set it up. But I don 1 t think the wi ndow changed. Cooper I don ' t either . Conrad Yeah, okay. Cooper Let ' s see , ·the vision tester , I thought worked very • well. No problem on it - - everything "·orked just as advertised and we did run it just as we had agreed to run it and was scheduled to run it . I n fact, in creased our numbers of runs on it later on. Every thing went fine on it. I sure noticed a variance from day to day in our perf ormance back and f orth, back and forth -- it would seem to me like we -- and I think thi s is probably a function of how much we •
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