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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
235~Ot~FIDE~◄ llAL have been looking out the window -- Conrad Yeah, I think you hit the nail right on the head with that one -- Cooper Because once you have been looking out the window for a while , if you come back in and do anything for a while until your eyes kind of got settled down was very difficult . The M- 9 -- it ' s not the M- 9 vision test -- it was the M- 9 vestibular functions tests of we ran that just as we had said we would run it we held our heads alined with the headrest , as straight as possible, and turned the thing on - - I took mine in my right eye, Pete took his in his left eye , so t hat I could read along the side of his and he could read along the side of mine . I alined with the top of my instrument panel which is offse.t by some 30 degrees, or so , and I assume that Pete alined with the top of his also. And we would spin the dial and then while looking in there , aline with what we thought was the parallel alinement with the top of the panel and then say read, and the other man would read their reading or would record the reading down then, and we di d this five times to get the readings -- enough said for that . I just will say that I -- my personal opinion on this thing ct>J\,FK) E ►~T I,._.
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