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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).
294 went so far as working out the REP that the D-2 camera wanted to pull it out at real t ime but we never put it in the window. We riggecl a 16 mm. Yes, we did use the GMS for all the things that were concerned with the REP which had to do with many stowed items, experiment items . Cooper Okay. Translation and docking t raine,~s . Let me just say this as far as the simulations on flight experiments. I really think you can use a mock- up to greater advantage and most experimnnts than you can the GMS . Conrad Yes. I think you are right. Cooper I think you are tyi:: g up the GMS in mnny cases over things that you don ' t need to tie it up for . Translation and docking trainer. I would like to have had maybe a little more time in it al though I think we got 99 per cent of what we needed t o get. Conrad Yes , the afternoon I spent in it was worthwhile, running the D- 6 camera eq_uipment, takj_ng some pictures and tracking them. All put ·;ogerther the GMS and the tracking thing and thn horizontal SEDR up at MAC ended up to good familiarity with the experiments equipment . 14.9 Spacecraft System Tests Cooper Okay, and at MAC we didn ' t really run1 as you say, -.i @el>,,FID ~►~T Jl\t
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