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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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273 us a whole day and a half in flight to realized that these experiments were going to run so successively close t o one another. The one thing that we were not prepared for on the ground and had to learn in the air was how to organize a series of di fferent experiments to run them in a row. I ' m not sure we coul d have figured this out on the ground . Cooper One thing we could have done if we had had the time , we could have taken one of these Stateside passes that we knew would really be cluttered and run through it in real time . Conrad I think the recommendation here is what should be done in the future for a flight that had experiments like this one . I ' d run a sim-net- sim with Houston. We had individually er ected and taken down and put up every experiment enough times that we had no problem in assembling anything. We had no problem in knowing where everything was, we knew where everything was in the spacecraft and we got it in the shortest amount of time as possible even in the f light . We didn ' t have any trouble in that way. The one thing that we did miss was, and they have a sim net sim of '90NFtoENll,_, "
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