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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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261 13.0 MI3SION CONTRO: 13. 1 GO/ NO GO Cooper GO/NO GO ' s--I think we ' re fine . I don ' t s ee anything wrong with the GO/NO GO's. 13. 2 Pl~ and CLA Updat~s Cooper Conrad 13 Consumables Cooper ::.,onrad Cooper Conrad Cooper Conrad .. I thought those went all right . Do you? Yes , we had a hip pocket place to go on every or bit . Consumables--In general we had a pretty good handle on those. The oxygen, the OAMS- - We had one anomally on the OAMS . I still don ' t think we lifted off with the right OAMS propellant . No , I don ' t think so either . We had 87 percent- - 87 percent on liftof f and they never answered that question for us . We did ask why we had this r eading rather than 100 percent and we never got that answer . We asked this shortly before liftoff . This may have had to do with the fact that we had full fuel but not a full load of oxydizer based on that 1 , 25 mixture ratio. My understanding was that we were supposed to liftoff with 100 percent on the gage. I ' m not saying that wa s correct but it took I us by surprise when they blew the Squibs a couple of minutes before liftoff and had 87 percent «e~FIDi~il.l;<L
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