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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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- 250 one large meteorite enter underneath U3 Conrad Observed quite a few underneat h us-- Cooper There was ver-✓ seldom a night went by that you couldn't watch just for a few minutes to see a micrometeorite or two of them enter. One meteorite came from a l ong way out burning and went in under neath, There were two other si gnificant things. One was the observation of the moon. The moon was rising out of the airglow . We had about a quarter moon and you couli seo the entire moon lit partially and then t he one part o:f i t lit brighter . It r eally appeared in t hree dimensional wlth the sun back over back off the horizon light:L-1 5 it . This was quite spectacular, I thought . I bought .i.t l ooked very unusual. The other observa.ti0ns in t :'le vicinity of the Magellanic Clouds, and actually in t he vicinity where this Gegenschein Li1sht is- - i t appeared to me to be two to three a:~eas that looked like Magellanic Clouds, only mu~h smaller. .·, ! There were two or three other little Magellanic Cloud-appearing thi!lgs, 'l'hey weren't elusters or anything. I think you noticed them several times too over there when we we~e fiddling around the Magellanic..Clouds, I never could decid•~ what they
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