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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).
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48 Conrad We didn ' t even check reentry rate command- Cooper We used direct, UBed pulse . We uned the rate command . We used hori zon scan . Conrad I know what it was--why don ' t you tell them about this--and I ' m going to see if I can get the fuel f i gures-- Cooper OK. And they all worked very ade quately. I thought the rate command system, I mean the RCS system was an excellent system. It was really crisp and just really, I thought, it was a real good solid system. Rate command was much more-- FCSD rep What about the retrof ire - how did i t hold retrofire? Cooper Beautifully , it was just no effort at all- hold-- FCSD rep + 1 degree or less? Cooper Oh, yeah , easily. We had a little offset in number 3 and number 4. I could feel them offsetting us . I just cranked in a little bit of RCS : Boy, it just glued it right in there, it just wasn ' t about -- I felt like we could have had four or five times the offset we had--and never have ,.
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