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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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Cooper FCSD Rep Conrad FCSD Rep Conrad Cooper Conrad 309 gigantic fires on the ground and just out of curiosity I want to know where we were--and it happened on the sixth day at 01 hours 02 minutes and 15 seconds so maybe we'll be able to find out where we were. That's all I got, Gordo, how about you , anything more? No. Oh, I got-- Pete, you mentioned. you blew that oxygen- Blew the OAMS squib--could not hear it blow. Had no way of telling that it really worked. You can ' t pulse a regulator up and I did and it works just like it does in the trainer . It gives it a blip, you know, and you got to keep blipping it up. And I built it up to about 325 from about 300 just to see if it would do it and it did. So the system worked OK. But I still don1 t know that the squib was blown--you know you pulse, anyhow. Well, other than looking. Yeah. Well, I thought the squib was in the adapter. No way of telling, I don't think. I f they are lucky they. might have--( laughter) Well, they found a booster-- they might find the adapter.
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