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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
237co~~FIDE~~TIAL in rolling flight because of the tracking involved and the couple of times we saw the marks , you ' d be messed up trying to decide whether it was the 1 , 2 , 3, or 4, just from orientation. Cooper Well, here again, we were trying to salvage a little bit out of drifting flight and I realize why we con tinued that experiment where we could and doing what we could, but it ' s almost worthless to try and do anything of this type if you don ' t have attitude control systems -- Conrad And a platform Cooper And a platform because you have got t o be able to get powered up , you have got to be able to have pointing information, be able to get on the thing at an early enough date to get your angles right and to get all set up and to be able to control the· spacecraft so that you can take the right look angle . When you are trying to climb all over one side of the spacecraft, peer out the back corner of the other window and one in one another ' s lap, one peering out of one window and one out the other and there ' s just a mess and it doesn't do the experiment justice and it doesn't do us justice . If the experiments going to be done at all, it ought to be done right and @0 ►4FIDE~~TIAL
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