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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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306 watch here I kept on G.m. t . 15.5 Miscellaneous Discrepancies Cooper FCSD Rep Cooper OK , I have a little list of discrepanc:.es -ti~ that I might just include here. These are discrepancies that I noted during the flight and somn of them have been noted bef ore , but I might juHt hit them real briefly. Just to make sure we have all of them. 1. We lost the stage 2 IPS fuel gage shortly after launch. 2. We encountered this POGO effect at 2 minutes and 6 seconds. 3. We lost communications near SECO on UHF No . 1. many of these have already been explained why, but I just--1 111 get these down. 4. We lC>st fuel cell o2 tank heaters. 5. The M..:1 experimer..t pooped out and also I thought it was objectionably noisy. 6. The gray interior paint flecks off of the guard bars and off several areas of the cockpit areas and • floats and flecks around on the inside. 7. The platform mode was no good for t he burm, and was not holding the spacecraft as it should. Let me ask one question. Did you ever try that platform control mode on the RCS system? No , I didn't. Sure didn't. I wish I l:.ad , I just- I guess I had just given it up at that point and just didn I t get around to it . I should. have. The
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