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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).
312 We ·1a.ndeij on• t~e\ ree.Trier at ' ·"- mid- morning, carrier time , and we acconplished not one bit of debriefing or operational work throughout that day at all. We went to bed that night without ever having done one bit of our own de1iriefi ng of any kind, whatsoever. The entire day was npent with the medical community. I don't know that we lost anything there , particularly, but I st:.ll thi nk there are a lot of things you could sit down and start t aping that would be a lot fresher i n ;irour mind. Although, I think with two people on the flight , you tend to jog one another enough that yon don ' t forget ( . about things you might when one person has been on a flight. Now, so far a.s +,ne preflight nedical aspects, I still have some very strenous object:.ons to it and comments to make . I think that T- 2 day s physical - giving t hit extensive a physical at that period of time i s kind of ridiculous. I think you really drag a guy throught the hoops there just 2 clays before his flight and completely grind him down on a very, very extensive physical that I don ' t agree with the medics as being necessary. And I don ' t agree with all the blood- letting that was involved in thin. I think that al l t he number of i njections and sticko and reinser tions of isotopic bl ood and everything was completely M).taiFtDE►,TtM •
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