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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).
28 Cooper So then we asked again when we wer e in orbit, "About this under load on GA.MS fuel" . I suspect t hat something was fouled up because we didn ' t get a full 0AMS load . That was pretty bad . Cooper I think monitor ing onboard of propell~mt r emaining t o compl et e the mission was pretty good. The fore cast fuel for mis si on completion of GE,mini V ought to be reviewed because somebody didn ' t quite come up with the right fuel figures . Twenty- six percent remaining after the REP would not havE been nearly enough to have ~one the r emainder of the mission . Conrad Yes . I t hi nk t hat in computing the a.mount of fuel used t o perform a maneuver, they figure out how much to get the r ates going but they must s top there . They must not f i gur e how much fuel it takes you to . get back to, say, zer o- zero- zero . Appirentl y t hey assume that whenever you get done with a tracking maneuver, you j ust drift to get back to zero- zero zero. Over the U. S . we had maybe 6 or 7 minutes be t ween a 30 degree pitch- down target to the next 30 degr ee pitch- down target . You ' ve got to t r ack it all t he way through, bing the spacecraft all the way back up and then go to and track the next target .
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