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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).
247 .. Cooper Conrad G©t'<IFIBE ►~TIAL down or they can correlate it real easy if I give you the ones that we got . So we had a -- and we alwrors took two sets , one at an eighth and one a t quaYter, so we had a set at 1 day 20 hours 2 minutes and 30 seconds, and we actually would up with four pictures . Apparently they requested four. Then / we had another one and that was cumulus clouds wherelver the location was -- Gordo took the pictures I and another one on the second day 21 hours 33 minutes and 02 seconds , four pictures of a tropical storm. On the third day, 6 hours 32 minutes and 46 seconds we had four pictures taken over the Philippines of clouds in the Philippines . Then the next frame , number 13, was exposed accidentally. And then on the third day at 21 hours 20 minutes and 8 seconds , it doesn ' t say what the picture was made of -- but~ set were made -- of an 03 , mode 03 -- that was , let me look and see here . Right , I think that was S- 7, 03 Eastern Pacific and then we had on the fourth day at 3 hours 20 minutes and 25 seconds , we had a Philippines/Guam area set again, then on the third day, 20 minutes 35 seconds, you had one taken there Gordo, whatst that white something -- oh , that white EO~~FIDE~TIAL
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