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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 287 the nadir, but I think it wa.s helpful and I think f l ight proved the same thing that we concluded in this , that it wa.s a. very simpl e task , once you ha.d acquired something.. . . . . the track. Once you ha.d acquired something, yes . The one thing that I, to this day gave me the funniest sensations though , is when you track through the nadir and the things started to speed up and reverse I get the weirdest sensation that we passed the nadir and got a.bout 30° going behind us . I almost had myself reversed in flight, like I wa.s coming up on it again . Now, I can ' t explain the feeling but it was weird. It's a real odd optical i llusion where you a.re like you are in an inverted spin-type situation. You a.re looking--going back over here and the angle out is changing such that you al most do have the feeling that it's - that you have suddenly s tarted changing your whole angle... . And if you're looking a.t the nadir, and you're track ing through in just one axis , pitch or something like that, invariably you're off a. l ittl e bit in yaw, you see, and you' ll get going, all of a sudden it will start speeding up , and if there is any roll in there a.t a.11; all of a sudden the roll will pick up ,
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