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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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" 13 . 5 Systems Cooper 'l@ Ot~FIDE ►~TIAl they did a fine job . I think they made a good effort to salvage all we could ou of a poor situation . . I think they really did a fine job . As a resul t of what we found , and we didn't know before we got into the real time situation; we discovered that the people compromised are the flight crew. They wound up cutting into sleep periods and certain functions were performed at the wrong time for each one of us. It could have been better planned as for as who did what when. Mission Control for syst ems . I think the biggest handle you have on systems is right on board , and I still think so . I think we had a good handle on what was going on. The things that presented a real question were the rate of decay , the rate of dwindling, some of these cyros , etc . The ground got a good handle on them and began to give us some good informat ion on what we could expect. Although , I think some of them were new enough that the ground wasn't aware of what was going to happen. For example, they didn't know when they would vent and when they wouldn't , what the rate would be when they vented , etc . £:Of4£10E~~TIAL
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