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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).
44 FCSD rep Conrad FCSD rep Conrad left and r ight . We wound up witr. too much going forward and we started to back up and suddenly we remembered we couldn't back up s o then we decided well , we 'd j ust leave thEi errors on the burn and burn i t the best we could because no matter what happened He're going to translate i nto forward and what we should have done and we didn't think of i t at the time--but you learn--we shouldn ' t have burned all the forward--we should have burned down to about a foot of what we were supposed to have forward ancl then taken out the left , right , up and down and go ahead and burn the forward again. The updates that they sent you on-- That worked fine. There was no problem. We copied the numbers down , entered the computer. We had plenty of t i me to make the maneuver. We btuned r ight on the cl ock as advertised and we seemed to have gotten approximately i n the positi on they wanted us to get to . What burns did you s i mulate? Well, we did a-- I ' ve got them r ight here. @oM~lA Al
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