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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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308 hands and in particular the bright overhead one is very hot . Conrad One other--let ' s see, we talked about the purge switches being 3- positioned rather than spring l oaded . And one other thing we noticed , one systems glitch which seemed to affect either scanner-- out over the Pacific a couple of times we passed some really, really, really big areas of cload cover-, I mean we were almost--the whole visible sky or ground was covered with clouds or a good portion of it and this seemed to give the scanners fits. Cooper These same cloud.a were that big cloud t hat had all the lightning in it too--later on we- - Conrad Well , it may have been . I didn ' t make n.ny correla tion that way, but I, in the daytime , I noticed that the scanners had quite a hard time doiner their job when they were looking at much horizon covered by clouds . Got very irratic . I think that ' s a known phenomena--with scanners , anyhow, but I just wanted to mention that they did kind of kick up when there were a lot of clouds a.round . We talked about the right auxiliary light bulb bug thing breaking off. And I have one question, There was one place in the world where we 0ased at:!Ct a great deal of rCOW:t EblTlit
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