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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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291-IM Cooper Conrad Cooper Conrad Cooper pointing but that wouldn't tell me whether I was upside down or right side up or anything , but I don't know the stars that well. With the accurate star chart updated and then finding the stars on there , then you could use them for spacecraft orientation. I'm taking this to mean you are talking about a quick orientation, you know, I aborted in the middle of the night on launch if I went on a night launch, would I know which way I was going? I don't think so . I don't know. You would be very lucky, you would just have to see one you could recognize . You can take your time when you are planning in advance. Okay. Now you want to use Orion to line up in a certain way with my reticle. Now that's a different story, but that would have to be done at a specific time because Orion moves all the way through the sky and it turns over on a 72 degree launch azimuth. Well , tracking task. We didn ' t cover that but I think it is pr etty obvious that you can use it for tracking task we found . •
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