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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).
47 FCSD rep Conrad Cooper 8 .3 RCS FCSD rep Cooper Conrad Cooper FCSD rep Cooper FCSD rep Conrad Cooper Cooper COt~FIDE~~TIAt OK- well , I don't think there is much we can add then--did you get all of these readings out of-- 8O- 81- 82- 58- 59- 69- Yeah, that stuff works just like the simulator. We got the readings . OK - On to 8 .3 - RCS. Let's go into the RCS - yeah , I don ' t think there is anything more-- This is all-- Yeah, this is all we can do on the REP. OK- RCS Operational Checks - We did just like we had planned in our little book. We a ctivated the RCS and Check Ring A and ACME and direct--al l three axis- Ring B - Check Ring Bin ACME and direct--all three axis and they worked beautifully. How about the pad checks--were they- Negative No pad checks? Not with the sealed system-- A sealed system - I'm glad it was- Control Modes - We used pulse and we used horizon scan-- tQEt◄ Ttl<L
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