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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).
32 Cooper Conrad Conrad good . Ther e again , it might have been a f unction of the thrusters going out . In any event , I think that 1 s an error ,;hat somebody needs to look i nto . I ' m n ot sure that pl atfor m mode is doing what i t should. I know that , t heoretically , • and by t he diagrams on it and the limit s that it ought to be a ver y pr ecise control mod E! . Spacecraft separation at SECO + 20 couldn ' t have been better , jus t fine . Translat i on per igeE! adjust went like cl ockwork. Tha t was our fi r st r eal burn and I thi r.k we got something like 9 . 6 f t/sec on t he IVI ir.stead of 10 . 0 , but t he burn wasn ' t that crit icaJ . I checked accelerometer bias and it seE•med like the accel er ometer bias incr eased l a t er in the f light . I specif icall y checked it f or the REP end it was okay . I 1 d just set up zer os in the wirdow and went to Catch- Up and they stayed zero for 3 or 4 minutes or longer . So that satisfied me . I checked it l ater on in the f light and I don ' t think we r an more than a minute and we clickEd up a f oot per second on the fore - aft window. That can be checked on the tape . In the beginning it was entirely acceptable for the REP .
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