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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).
22 All kinds of garbage came by the spacecraft. It looked like we blew a whole bunch of junk out of it. I remember distinctly seeing gold balls . Cooper Great b i g balls of l iquid. Conrad So it must have been raw fue l . Something at this time wasn 't working right , but I guess number 8 was putting out full thrust and number 7 was still work i ng but not all the way. Now mayb<? right then and there if we'd have really worked that system over; fired all the thrusters in Direc1; and a couple of good healthy loads throug it ,., and put the heater s back on the line, we might have sal vaged thew vaged the whole system. It must have been right at the point of freezing up. Cooper This was early i n the fifth day. .£:Obi:EIOEttllAL
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