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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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255 12.0 PREMISSION PLANNING 12 . 1 Mi ssion Plan (trajectory ) Cooper On these l onger flights you have to be prepared for more real - time mission pl anning, which we were . And we had planned on this perhaps being the case and we hel d al l the flexibility that we could in our pl anning. You need to get all of the key things that you ' re going to do planned and trained for as well as possible, but the way you fit them together has to be flexible . This applies more to the flight pl an than it does to the over- all mission plan. 12 . 2 Flight Plan Cooper Flight plan almost invariably winds up being l argely real-time planning. 12.3 Spacecraft Changes Cooper Spacecraft changes has al ways been a sore point with me and stil l is . I can ' t emphasize enough to give the crew and everybody el se a fair shake by hol ding spacecraft changes to a real firm, hard freeze date. No more changes should be made after a certain date because it adds hardship to everybody invol ved, and does not allow the crew time to train. Some changes are going to be necessary because of what you find out on the preceding flight, but I think they should Jl
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