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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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on the gage. Cooper Electrical--1 don't think there was a:ny problem on the electrical system. The problem Wc,s in the cryogenics rather than the electrical. I should say in the cryogenics and in the water product of the fuel cells. These were the limiting things rather than the electrical power we were using. As long as you could run the fuel cells there was no limit to the power you could pull off of them. Conrad Let I s put that to bed right now. The GPO fluffed powering up those fuel cells after thny ' d been powered down . If our electrical prob:.ems didn't do anything else, we got to cycle electr:_cal loads all the way through the flight on those fuel cells . As far as I'm concerned , those fuel CBlls are flight proven. Every fuel cell in every spa<!ecraft that goes off should carry the maximum loacl of RSS supply so that he has all the electrieal power that he wants to use. He can run that pla·;form, computer , or any combination of electrical gear that he wants anytime during the flight. The same ·;hing with the experiments. You ' ve got to have that platform. We kept pinching electrical power and pinching electrical power. I think we proved that the fu<~l cells can take @~,FIQ~t,.~TIAl "
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