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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).
293 14 . 8 Flight Experiments Conrad Cooper Conrad Cooper additional, maybe shorter , brush-ups on it . I think the people who have done , the McDonnell people and some of our own people and some of the McDonnell people and up at McDonnell is the way to do it . I think, I want the people to really !mow the systems, to use the systems briefing. I don't think they can be over emphasized, they're really necessary. Simulations. Well , we can rule out Denver because we didn't go there, and MAC, I ' ll never consider ever flying a flight without a horizontal seater on all the gear . Wait a minute now , we are in flight experiments. This is training. We got simulation, GMS , Translation and Docking and at Denver . This is all backwards because we didn't go to Denver. Oh, okay , simulation. Well , okay GMS, on flight experiments .. . . we really didn't do an awful lot of flight experiments in the GMS. No , the only thing we used the GMS f or down here was a final stowage revue when we got all changed around. We used it for the REP of course. A brush through on the REP. Conrad We never rigged. I take it back we did rig. We
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