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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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296 Conrad Cooper 14.10 Egress Training parallel testing. I don ' t feel that the crew really gets an awful lot out of, out of the spacecraft systems tests anymore because there are so many tests going on at the same time that you can't really keep a handle on what's going o:n and really get much of a feel for what's going on. You evolve t o an automated- type thing of calling three scripts at the same time and throwing switches and listening t o quite a complex thing going on. I think that a few of the systems tests that still go on such as the ECS test and the altitude chamber type thing are still well worthwhile, but I think that the parallel method of testing has decreased the val ue of the spacecraft systems test to the crew by great extent . There's no doubt about it, though, in l>eing present you keep them honest on many occasions. Well , that 1 s right. On the--it is good in that re spect , but as far as the training point of view it does give you some certain familiarity with the sys tems too , but I was just pointing out i:hat it was decreased over what it used to be. I really thought our egress training wa.s well wort h while- - •
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