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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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289 Conrad And with the gun site superimposed, excuse me, reticle superimposed on it. Put it right there to orient it with the Southern Cross and Grus and Fomalhaut we would have never gotten that experiment done , without having gone through that really that half a day did it for that experiment. Cooper Yes . That salvaged the experiment . Of course he will probably ruin the film anyway , The celestial identification up there t I think one thing that I recommend that we are going to have to crank up the brightness of the stars because we have had them cranked down to the Mercury level here all this time and it's just too confusing when you get up there you see so many more stars than you did in Mercury , I so we are going to have to raise the level, brightness level of it back up. Up for the training that we do because there were multitudes more stars than we had been trainL~g on. Conrad The stars move around in orbit too fast to use them for spacecraft orientation, as far as I was concerned. In other words I might recognize a constellation out there, The Southern Cross or Orion or something like tha t , but unless you know your exact point of time and have a star chart sitting m front of you
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