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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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292 @OfictFtDEf~TIAP • Conrad Oh yes . Cooper Spacecraft orientation. I agree, you need a little help on that . It would be a help ~o find a horizon, but you could get pitch and yaw on it md then maybe use the stars as a yaw orientat i on. 14,7 Syst ems Briefing Conrad Well , boy I can't say enough for the t;rpe we got at McDonnell - were relatively different in nature and the type we got down here but I can' t :,ay enough for both of them because they are both essential. I'll t ell you old Bob Snyder's one remark about that cryo stuff being abl e to go through that heat exchanger as a liq_uid and not bother anything would . . . I I just can ' t say enough for how that took the load off of our minds when we were up there . Cooper Yes, I think the -- Conrad A lot of little tidbits that we had out of these, specifically the gu:ys here a t the Ca.Pe, Cooper - I would sar that the content that we hE\d at the sys t ems briefing was excellent. I would say the number we had schedul ed, I would consic.er the absolute minimum. I t hink that you should have at an early date some very thorough,extensive syste·ms briefings at a later date , closer to the flight some Pllit8E~~lhhlt and then
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