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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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290 and even with a star chart sitting in front of you it wouldn't help you with spacecraft orientation. I take it tha t what you are saying. Do I know what I am in roll, pitch and yaw to the horizon, or something like that. I don't think so, because most of that stuff is moving too fast up there. Cooper Well , so far as it's yaw orientation :.t gives you relatively good angle. For instance you always know if you swing around just one lit·;le You remember when we would swing around and there was Cassiopeia, you knew that you were hended generally north. Conrad Well , yes that 's true. You knew that you were on one side of the tra ck or the other. n Cooper Pleides and the ... whenever you would see the Pleides, it always points east, so thnt gives you a clue and there are several pretty good clues and I always lmow when I see Delphinus that the Summer Triangle is near by. Conrad You're right, it would tell me where H was pointed but it wouldn't have told me anything in roll. In othe.r words I wouldn I t say that I would use it completely for a three axis spacecraft orientation . It might give me an idea of which way the sky was
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