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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).
33 Cooper I think we had some bias, just how much I don ' t lmow. The timing of the translation was fine , updating was fine. Operations and checklist were okay. Computer usage, okay. Conrad It was easier to make a burn on the simulator that had no up- down or left and right in it than it was in the spacecraft . Gordo did a real good job of tracking on every burn and I didn't see it wander hardly at all . Cooper And all the IVI ' s would be zero . Conrad And all the IVI 1 s would be zero, but we'd have .4. of 10 a foot in one axis and ~O in another. Conrad 8 Yes . The worst cross- coupling, we had 10 in one axis, and when we burned in the platform mode, but we were checking that . It could have been accelero meter bias again, or, the spacecraft is more sensi- • tive to picking up up- down and l eft- right velocities than I thought it was . Conrad Gordo did a real good job of tracking. He tracked as well as he did in the simulator and we never had this show up in another axis in the simulator . Cooper It would be zero , zero , zero in the simulator. Conrad It was hardly worth my time checking address 81 and 82 in the simulator because I could just tell he
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