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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).
21 Conrad Cooper Conrad FCSD REP Conrad Yes. That's when we came around on the next revolution. 'Illey had us fire up everything again to take a look at i t and that's when we found out number 8 had just gone down the tubes too. But number 8 was still givi ng us something; number 8 was stil l burning, but it was burning off mi xture. You could see a flame . You could see a glow out of it. You couldn' t hear it like you could hear the other thrusters, but you could see lights on the ni ght side so you knew something was coming out. 'Ille drivers just weren't openi ng all the way or some thing. The fifth day at 16:30 is the first problem you had with the OAMS, is that right? No, earlier. When we first powered the system up, we were having trouble with that very f irst platform alining and we felt we were having some hydrogen venting problems. 'Ihat's when we drifted way off, and Gordo said, "'Ille Pulse system isn't going to hack this hydrogen venting. " He went t o Di rect and blipped the yaw l eft thrusters. •
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