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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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257 nor is i t fair to the operations people when ex periments get cranked in past the experiments freeze dates . I feel that these freeze dates shoul d be establ ished early, agreed to by everybody concerned, and shoul d be hel d very rigidl y to . Unl ess a safety of flight or a significant development occurs warranting a spacecraft change, the f r eeze date shoul d be adhered to . If you don ' t , ,you affect hardware, you affect al l the previous and subsequent training a..~d planning involved , and you compromise everything as well as the experiments which did meet the agreed- to schedul e . 12. 6 Training Activities Cooper We were extremely short on time to do adequate flight plan training. Although we had it pretty well in hand, but it was still very marginal . I guess it was just as well since circumstances re quired considerable real- time pl anning. It woul dn't do much good to get timing patterns down real pat on these things anyway. Usually it boil s down to doing them real time. There were s everal experiments that I would have liked to have had a l ittle more time to run practice on the simul ator, or, at l east sit down and lay out exactl y how we were going to
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