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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).
Conrad FCSD Rep Conrad Cooper Conrad 245 off -- enough off that we could cut the cuffs off and throw them back in the trash box. The cardio- vascular conditioning bottle valve was very objection able . It was extremely noisy. It YOke both of us up everytime it actuated -- with a loud thud and hisses of air-- and I don ' t care what anybody says in a very quite room, it was very defi nitely objectionabl e and I won't change my opinion of it one bit ! It was too loud and my recommendation woul d be if they can ' t decrease the noise of this valve, that it be eliminated from any flights . Your M- 1. My M- 1, huh? Yeah , that was a crazy one. Let me ask one question on this. You didn't say here . Did you feel anything? Yeah, let's go into that . I very definitely felt that after we finally spent many hours down her e with Gene Tuggs and rebuilt the cuffs -- yeah , they were doing the job that they were designed to do. They were cutting off the venous flow and I could feel that in flight. Very easily in my f eet . So I thi nk it was working correctly. It was a shame it ran out of poop -- gas , air . I'm glad it did! YesCOJ)iU•IDEf>fJJicL
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