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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).
43 at this rate . Cooper We had a short discussion on t his and decided that we ' d better power down and forget the REP because we were in trouble . Cooper So we tearful ly decided to give up the REP and power down . Houston agreed with us when we got in touch with them that we had done the right thing. That ended the REP. We did see it for quite a few orbits later . Then Houston came up with the simulated Agena ren dezvous exercise , which they put on one of their computers . The three burns they gave us to do went off very satisfactorily, the thrusters worked very well . They would not allow us to use anything but the aft firing thrusters because they wanted to keep the cryogenic oxygen in the right position in the cryo tanks . Apparently the burns went to their satisf ac-· tion too . They seemed to feel that it put us right where we should be . Cooper We tried one of these burns with the Platform Mode . It did not work satisfactorily so I used Rate Command Conrad which worked very well . 1 We t ried to take the errors out and thats where we got into trouble . We had about a fo error left and right and a fo error up and down , so Gordo fired off the fo tG~~FIDE ► ,•♦♦ L.
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