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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).
241~F.IDENT!ts#- Cooper FCSD Rep Conrad have had a heck of a lot easier problem if the visual acuity targets had been located up in Yuma and not Laredo . Everytime we came over the West Coast , if I didn ' t see Yuma, why I was surprised because I think!I acquired Yuma every time - - it ' s real easy to pick it out of the desert and there was many clues to lead you right where those vis targets might have situated if they had been in the Yu.ma areas, and I felt that you would probably see them. And I still think this is a real worthwhile experiment . I think it ' s good for 7, but it ' s got to be revised considerably . They have got to move that Laredo l ocation , Okay. Have you got anything in the book ther e that you want to put in? Wel l, yeah. Let ' s just run by it real quick. What · happened on each one of the I have several passes l isted and I have on the first day 00 hours 00 minutes that we took a vision test , well, those are all in the flight plan and they are all marked on the cards so that ' s not necessary to record . It was on the f i r st day, 18 hours 26 minutes , when I did the window scan. The Laredo siting we did at 1 day , 18 hours, 34 min utes , 38 seconds and we didn ' t even see it. Then
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