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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).
35 Cooper FCSD Rep Cooper FCSD Rep Cooper FCSD Rep Cooper FCSD Rep Cooper Conrad Cooper ;CO tsifH0E1t~I IAL up zero , then youst i·11 win• d up wi·th .1_ 2- or10 , 10 , 6 I in all your windows. I just don t t know how you re 10 ever going to do any better than that . (Unless you use the above procedure). Translation REP deployment was passable . This one you didn ' t . You didn ' t fire back at the REP after jettison? No. Let's replace this maneuver with the simulated opera tion (phantom rendezvous). We did deploy the REP and the radar did operate properly. Originally when the debriefing guide was made out, this section covered the translation back after REP deployment and the subsequent translations . Okay . We ' ll just have to use the translations that they made on the simulated run . We kicked the REP out at 90 degrees right yaw. We kicked it out at 02 07 + 15, or 15 seconds l ate . The reason we were 15 seconds late , as we stated earlier, was that going into the night side the night before , after all our careful platform alinements , all of a sudden the horizon scanner began to drop
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