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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
Conrad FCSD Rep Conrad FCSD Rep Conrad FCSD Rep Cooper Conrad begin to see in the Mercury flights . In f act , on the basis of the number of stars we've seen, our recommendations are that you crank up the planetar ium at Moorehead and increase the brightness of it over the l evel at which we were studying it be cause it was, to me, rather confusing when we got up there due to the number of stars we actually were seeing. Didn't you think we needed to up the number of that you actually see? Yes, very definitely. You see quite a bit of the sky. Did you get any pictures of opportunity of something --something that you really remember-- that wasn't scheduled? Pictur es . You mean photographs? Yes . Oh, I think we have some outstanding photographs in there if they came out . I mean something that m~be you wanted to take a picture of that wasn't on the-- Oh , yes . \.le took a number of pictures because-- We got some real good pictures coming across the states , with the clear day we never expected to see, where we got two or three of the big major cities
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