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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).
Cooper Conrad FCSD rep Cooper Conrad Cooper Conrad Cooper Conrad Cooper a couple of times. And they were very straight forward--left, right , up, down . We even fired the forward-one quick l ittle blip . We fired the forward one then we suddenly remembered we weren't supposed to . What kind of visual out- the -window did you see on these translations? In other words-- Left/right lights things up real w?ll- I could see the glow from the aft--they were- - J. B. is referring to visual cues )n the horizon and we were on the gages-- They were at night--middle of the night- everything we did was in the middl 1~ of the night--this spacecraft only ran in t he middle of the night (laughter) . I really don't remember making a burn- We never did anything in the day-- Yeah , I think one or two of them were on the day side--but by and large-- I never did so much night work in rzy- life-- EONFIDEt~ AL,.
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