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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).
38 tumbling in the other axes. The blanket was sitting _r ight next to it . Cooper The blanket went out and was sitting ri1sht by it. It went right on out with it . That was thi~ funny part of it . The blanket was between the REP and us . Conrad Yes. Cooper The blanket goes out first. The REP ha:3 a lot more mementum, apparently the REP had gone b;r the blanket: Apparently it had either hit it or moved it over or something because the blanket was betwe,m us and the REP . Conrad Yes. I don ' t know exactly what happenecl there . Cooper It was just a few feet outside of the REP . The REP went straight on out to 270 , radar was working fine , r eading out everything just right , lock1~d on, and went out to the point where it should have s·~arted s l owing down . Conrad This is where I had a mistake in the fl:.ght plan and didn't catch it . The computer was in PHELAUNCH and I was wondering why I couldn't get any digital readout . I t took me a few seconds to catch on to that one and I realized that I had to get the computEir into CATCH- UP. We had never run into this problem where we'd gone through a complete insertion checklist
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