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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).
248 Conrad Cooper Conrad Cooper Conrad Cooper Conrad Cooper 11,11 Miscellaneous Cooper Conrad calibration card--that was frame number 18, Then on the fourth day 16 hours 37 minutes 00 seconds, you had thunderstorms over someplace---is that right- thunderstonns? Yes , the tip of_ Florida, up right off-•- Yes, thunderstorms off the tip of Florida--that's right, they ask for that. And then on the fourth day, 19 hours 44 minutes 02 seconds, we had another Eastern Pacific for_two pictures. Then on the fourth day, 21 hours 09 minutes 25 seconds, t ropical storm 'Doreen--two pictures. Twenty-seven wHs tripped in the spectrometer again--the twenty-seventh-- That's right. Then on the seventh we had seventh day, 4 hours, 18 minutes 21 seconds, we had another Philippine/Guam area. Right Two pictures. Yes, and that was it for the cloud to1> spectrometer. Celestial and External Observations. We saw the Zodiacal light . Quite clearly--twice.
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