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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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270 14,0 TRAINING 14.1 Gemini Simula tor Procedures Cooper The procedures that we went through in-·it- and our t raining was pretty accurate. I think that we used the right procedures in the development of our checklist . In going through the procedures we should have ""tad; our flight type checkli~;t at an earlier date in order to get a little bii. more famili ar with them and to iron them out a little more in the GMS. We should have had them j or 4 weeks earlier. System knowledge--I didn' t feel we were t oo bad off system knowledge wise , did you? Conrad No . Cooper We were pretty well on top of everything, We had a great deal of confidence in knowing the systems . The systems training that we got in the GMS on the fai l ure analysis a long with the lectures we got by t he systems people , both the GMS people and the McDonnell people , put us in pretty good s·1ape sys t em wise. We were in excellent shape ,:::oncerning launch t raining. I might say tha t i f the::-e is any changing to be done we should emphasize the nominal launch more. We ran through al l types of emergencies . We had some good sessions on the DCPS . We had some eot-~FIDE~~T1At
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