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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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300 "EVA again, yes,-- Cooper Yes , I think this zero g airplane plane is well worthwhile for a specific mission, especially mis sion training. But so far, as just in general .. . I don ' t bel ieve it's particularly worthwhile. Well , it is worthwhile like Pete said, that if a man hasn't ever made a f l ight before a~d never ex perienced zero g, certainl y good to f~niliarize him. Conrad Yes, I agree with you on EVA . 14.17 Flight Plan Training Cooper Okay, f l ight plan training. Well , we never did really have much time to do any real f1ight plan t raining, other than-- Conrad Yes, the onl y thing that we were invol'red in really was the REP and how it was going to go , We l et J erry Jones l ay out the rest of it without us really putting much effort into it. There rnally wasn ' t a heck of a l ot we coul d do along that line.. . Cooper And I think for long missions this rea:.-time thing is going to go, is going to have to go on, many changes to be made so I ' m not sure that the over..-all mission needs training.. . I think maybe you might just run spot portions of it on the time-critical of course--
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