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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
239EO~◄ FIDE~◄ TrAt besides the smoke there was nothing else to -- in a contrast nature -- to attract us to the target area Cooper That ' s right. Conrad And that -- the problem was acquiring it -- we were always in the process of acquiring but by the time we acquired it, we were already overhead where we should have been making readings . Cooper Yeah, I think that they might do ~ell to put some big colored panels out or some type of something that would be more distinctive Conrad Let ' s (Say this -- the times that we saw the ships, the time we found the carrier, we had the carrier wake in sight for 500 miles even though we didn ' t have the ship in sight and we were bor esighted , tracking, ,spacecraft pitching down keeping track of that thing when we got close enough to actually see the aarrier with our naked eyes, why it's because we had been tracking and looking and focusing right in the right spot all this time . You can ' t do that with that type target , and this was the thing that I was afraid that was going -- they've tried to control everything in this S~S/D- 13 experiment measure the atmosphere , they have measured our eyes, they have made the targets the right size , but they
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