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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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251 Conrad Yes, we kept looking over the area of Gegenschein to see if we could see and I don't really think it was the Gegenschein, but-- Cooper There was one area right almost in the immediate area of the Gegenschein, but not quite . It was very near that area by maybe five degrees or so though. There was this one area which appeared like the Magellanic Clouds . Conrad Like a real small one . Cooper Yes, it looked like a small Magellanic Cloud. That's really what it looked like. I t was quite near the area where we had been told the Gegenschein should appear; but, then there were a couple of others of these that similar types back over closer toward the other of the regular Magellanic Clouds . So , I don't know what they were, and I didn't notice these before on my previous flight. These were something that were new to me. We saw a l ot of planets. We did try taking the polaroid, the two sheet polaroid filters , and rotating them to all different positions to see if we had circular or linear polarity coming out of the sun. I tried the sun both while well up and while setting. .. ~19E►~:JtA b,
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