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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).
45 Cooper Conr ad Cooper Conr ad Cooper Conrad Conrad FCSD r ep Conrad co~~r,ocr~r,At , We did a separation burn and we did a cl osing burn and a coelliptic burn . Those the ones we did , Pete? Well , i t was-- We did not a standard coelliptic--it was a-- No , we did a maneuver burn , which as--wait a minute--we did an apogee adjust maneuver which was a retrograde of 20.1 feet , then we did a phase adjust maneuver which was a forwar d burn of 15 feet . No . Yeah. 15 . 8 feet , then we did an out- of- plane burn , yawed left 900 of 15 feet and then we did a reverse coelliptic burn- - We burned- let's see--we burned 16 . 4 feet forward and we di d four burns altogether. Aft thruster s for all? Aft thrusters for all- -on out- of- plane- and that was the only t ime that we did ever , ever f l y the translat ional l eft , right , up, down thrusters. We used them to take out some of the IVI readings there
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