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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).
out on us and we began to drift off in yaw. Conrad Dropping out wouldn't have been bad, but when it dropped out it also commanded some thrusting. Cooper We got some real good blips out of it . Conrad We were alining i n the Horizon Scan Mode and I got the impression that it pitched us up . Cooper We wer e already alined , and we had gone to Orbital Rate and Horizon Scan, just to come alcng there in time to go in . As soon as we had the Ilatform all al i ned , and before we went in on the night side , I decided I would realine the pl atform ji.:st very briefly . So I had gone to SEF and to IULSE and I was checking and pulsing it . • But becai.:.se t hen in SEF position all your torquing is done f rom your Horizon Scanner. When t he Horizon Scar,ner began to drop out we began to get real erratic needle display and it looked like our platform alinemEmt was deter iorating. I was trying to correct thiB , but obviously, it was really kicking us off . That was when we went t o CAGE , tried desperatelr to get it caged and realined in time , and thought we had i t realined . We may have had it reasonab:.y well alined by the time we f inally yawed right . I ·; looked like it was . The needles wer e all zeroed out and
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