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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).
49GQt"EIDE~~TIAt FCSD rep Cooper budged it off there . RCS , I mean the rate command--One thing on rate command before retrofire and just after retrofire, waiting for retrojet , and then starting the pitch up to go up and roll over inverted and go to zero lift , the dual ring rate command is just mor e than you can handle. It ' s just a lot more than control authority than you want--you tend to over- shoot on things because there is just so much control tor que in there . As I had stated, after I f ired retro and jettisoned the retropack and pitched up to roll over then from ther eon I went to s i ngle ring pulse, and used that . Reentry rate command--we didn ' t use . Direct - used direct t o do the reentry on single ring direct and used the pulse mode from r etrojet to 400K. On the single ring direct reentry did you have--did you feel like you had all the authority you wanted? Yeah--until very late--as I stated some time down , oh, half way thru the reentry ,_C~ Ji Hl:EttT
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