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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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295 t he horizontal SEDR was - around the spacecraft - was really the only flight experiments thing that we did on it up there . Let's see, flight experiments. Briefings . Well , I think some of the experiments, some were better than others . Some were lousy and generally the ones that got there in politically where the lousiest, or they didn I t bother to show up . I think this is s omething that should be very carefully controlled by the experiments board. If the experiment is going to be chosen the people who are the experiment ers should be forced to come in and give you a good briefing on these, everything ahllt them , or other wise they ought to be thr own off. Equipment -- now this is along the same line -- I think that you need desperately to observe freeze dates for the operation and availability of the experiments. Equipment for the experiments, if it isn't available i t ought to be thrown off the flight. I think that s omebody s omewhere along the line ought to back this . Maybe it has to go t o the LBJ level or something , I don ' t know. Spacecraft systems t est . .. . I personaliy am not very impressed with the multipl e
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