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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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304 Conrad Cooper Conrad Cooper 15. 3 Sea Lab FCSD Rep Conrad Cooper Conrad Cooper local. I flew l ocal once the whole time I was down here . Yes , I don ' t think I f lew local at al l . No , that ' s right . And I thi nk , her e agai n , we were caught in the middle of a bad scheduling situati on, which higher level woul d not allow us to do anythin15 about . But , I think we di d the best we could with t he short amount of time we had . I personall y f ,~el that we wer e extremely short on recreational time ru1d on flying time . We were pretty hard pushed there and on physical conditioning time . Did you all ever get to tal k to Scott Jarpenter? Yes. Yes. The l ast day, the second orbit before ·,;e were at r etro. Yes, just before retro. 15.4 Watches and Cl ocks FCSD Red Do you want to say anythi ng about watches and clocks? Conrad I think Gordo mentioned his Acutron stayed within 4 seconds during the whole flight and we only set it twice .
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