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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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301 Conrad FCSD Rep Conrad , I What do you mean by operational check, you were talking about system checks; in flight? Yes, flight plan training. . . Operation checks. Thruster ill umination . Well, I don't have much feel for that one way or another other than what I said earlier this morning-- yes, I think I don't know why it's as plain as the nose on my face but I think we l eaped off the wrong assumption--that everything was going to run right without checki ng and I think that we shoul d flight plan up the first orbit now with more checks in it. That was a very poor assumption on this part , the more I even think about it , because it was a perfectly likel y situation to have some part of those three systems to be not working right , and it would have been a simpl e matter to have gone to the secondary scanners and el imina ting the problem at the very beginning that we had , but we weren't smart enough to know that . We are now .
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