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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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Cooper Conrad Cooper Conrad 285 from now - having seen an alined platform. I really was quite surpr ised at what 0-0-0 looked like. It wasn I t anything like what I imagined it was going i, to l ook l ike . I think we were both surprised when we got up there and got the platform alined and really looked at 0-0-0, that it looked the way it did. And you are also banked . Yes . You are banked right and I'm banked left. Yes . 14 . 3 MAC Engineering Simulator Cooper Okay. The MAC Engineering Simulator . Conrad I can't say enough for that half a day we spent on launches reading out Math Flow 6, on the computer. Cooper That's right. And the reentries . .. • Conrad That•s the most worthwhile half a day I spent as far as my side of the spacecraft went . Cooper The reentries I thought we did at MAC Engineering Simulator were just exactly' like the reentry we did . I think it was real good . I think, of course, the rendezvous we did up there .we tave al ready mentioned, I thought were probably one of the best things we did .
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