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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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305 Cooper FCSD Rep Cooper Conrad My clock you talking about? It was the one-- My own personal Acutron I never reset and it was some 15 seconds off at the end of the flight for the whole 8-day period . The Acutron on the panel , the panel mounted Acutron, was--I changed it about 4 seconds . It ran 4 seconds f ast t he entire flight . The Omega that I wore was some 2 minutes off the first day and the second day was another l minute and some odd off, at whi ch time I jus t quit winding / it . I quit winding it about the third day and never even bothered using it again . The stop watch that I was--that I took along--at the end of the third day was still only about 2 to 3 seconds off. It actually was quite good and I just didn ' t have occasion to use one and let i t run on down. And then I cranked it up for reentry and started two minutes after retrofire . Your clock over there ran reasonably accuratel y your little 8 day clock over there , didn ' t i t? Eight day clock ran real well. I kept it on GMT-- the two big wrist watches I carried, I carried mainly for the REP maneuver and didn't use them too much. I did use them to count down to retrofire and my Glycene ~E~TIAcbs
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