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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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274 eoM EIDEt◄ TIA • revs 15 and 16 . It might have been a good idea if we ha.d listened to it in that we might have picked up the fact that the sequential ,::-unning required just a little bit different opnration. Again, I'm not sure that you can practice this on the ground, because at the times we ha.d the gear out we wouldn't have been able to load any spacecraft on the ground the way we wound up using it in zero g. I had lenses floating on the floor and film magazines hanging by just a couple of little velcJ:o t hreads on the overhead which you couldn't have done in a 1 g horizontal environment. You couldn't stow your gear around the cockpit like you can during zero g. Maybe you might compromise here. You mj_ght consider a sim net sim to get some idea of how things are going to run into one another , and then if you're up for 4 days or something like that, yc,u might take an orbit to lay out a series so y01:.. can learn how to stick stuff around the spacecraft. . It's not apparent to you on the ground exactJy how you wind up storing that stuff. We really ca.me up with some new places to stash gear as the re~ult of being in zero g . ..
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