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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).
“Cape Kennedy”2 pages
252 FCSD Rep Cooper Everytime while setting, it seemed to have linear polarity, somewhat vertical , but I never could pin this down to anything well- defined. While the sun was up, well into the sky, I could rotate the filters and rotate them within themselves to any degree and couldn't discern anything but equal polarity coming out of them in all directions. It didn't seem to have any linearity to it at all or any well-defined specific axis of linearity. never could see anything from the sun other than with the polaroid filter in . After the sun had set, you could see quite a glow with the polaroid filter in, but at the same time you could see it without the polaroid, too . A couple of times when we got the Zodiacal light quite strongly-- Can you see the stars down through this airglow? Oh yes. You can see the stars right on down through the airglow. The Gemini window is much cleaner in general , apparently, or much better visibility out of it and night visibility than the Mercury window, because we were seeing down to about seventh magnitude of stars . We saw the clusters in Orion and we could see seven stars in the belt of Orion. We saw a great many stars which we couldn ' t "'-=eOMFlf>El'4TIM. ,> I
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