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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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. 310 "8Nf tDE~◄ Tt~H? 15.6 Medical Aspects Cooper I agree completely that the crew area.::iere should be i solated from the medics. I don ' t feel that the medical department should have anythini? whatsoever to do with crew quarters; otherwise, I thi nk the crew should j ust go right ahead and live up to flight day in a motel or somewhere else, because I have a very strong feeling t hat the medical deparu~ent is trying to make a clinic out of this place up here. I think the crew area should be held completely devoid of medics . I don't think they should have anything to do with the running of the crew quarters . I think the crew should establish its own procedurns of whether they're going to have low residue dietB , or . whether they're not going to have low residue diets , based upon recommendations from previous crews , fJ~om previous flight experiences along the way, and what everyone who has worked with it has passed on. We hope we can get all this information gathered up ir, a form that each crew coming along can be given a c.ondensation perhaps of all the previous crew ' s comments on things of this type , such as diets, methods of defecation and urination,
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