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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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26s ~EIDE~~TIAL 13 . 6 Experiment Real Time Updates Cooper I think these worked out pretty well . We mentioned about needing a platform before and abcut needing attitude control . And our OAMS system got worse and worse where we had no attitude cont rol t o speak and weren't allowed to use any, I think, a great many of these things that were put in ~ust hoping we might drift through. They were sort of wasted . It was a waste of time . They could ha.v-e saved our time , theirs , the writing time , and. everything involved, because trying to get some of these experi ments while in drifting flight i~ completely imp.ossible. Conrad It was really funny. It couldn' t have been better planned to work out opposite. They'd say get a D-4/ D- 7, like the Milky Way--You ' d expect to drift through the Milky Way long enougr. to get it . Anytime we had the gear fired up we nev-er got anywhere near the Milky Way. Cooper No , we would always be pointing at the ground . Conrad There was one time when I tried to do it . We were pointed at the Milky Wa;y. By the time I found out that we were going to drift through it and the t en minute warm up time for the gear passed, we were ct> ►,FfDE~~Th*lll. I
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