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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).
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11.10 Cloud Top Spectrometer (S-7) Cooper Here again , there weren't a:ny problems in the hard~1are in the flight that we didn ' t know about before flight. There were two occasions where the spectrograph I s shu·;ter was re leased inadvertently e i ther in stowage or unstowing and the main shutter had not been -- just as we knew- this is a very weak point of the mechru1ism because all you have to do is bump it against some·;hing and the spectrographic shutter was released -- which ruined the whole -- that particular exposure •·- you had to recock the whole thing. As far as the procedur es of using it, it was easy enough to use , it was a ld.ttle bit cumbersome in shape but we used it holding i t -- the lenses upright up high so tha·; they got out t he window. I think we got them some good data if . Pete will get the log out here he can r ead over that . We recorded on the voice recorder as long as we had any tape . We recorded comments on t he clouds, their appearance , and all that while making ·;he photographs . Conrad Now, all the photographs taken were specific photo graphs requested at a specific time . '.:here were some that were requested at a specific t ime that we didn ' t get. I think the experiments pHople have those
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