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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).
34 wasn't going to have any velocities in there , and very seldom did . But we never fail ed t o have fairly sizeable ones , like fa and fo fps, in another axis and I'm not quite sure how it got therE·. I guess the spacecraft is extremely sensitive . If you ' re going to make pr ecise burns , you I ve gotta really burn precisely and i f you want to take out the errors , take out the address 81 and 82 errors so that you don ' t introduce anything else . During the difficult ren- dezvous maneuvers, you have to plan on more f uel usage because you're going to have to take it out with the up- down thrusters . Cooper I think what you ' re going to have to do is stop short of burning off all your forward or aft velocity, particularly the forward velocity, and then use the canted thrusters to burn off the right- Left and up- do,m and that will take out part of the remaLnder of the forward velocity. If it hasn ' t taken it all out , then bleep out the rest of the f orward . I think that 1s the only way you can do it if you want to burn them al l t o zeros. I don ' t believe you can t r ack any more precisely if you keep all your IVI ' s zeroed right down the money. If you burn it off and stop just at the right time so that everything should turn
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