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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).
53 FCSD rep Cooper b4~1DEt ◄ TIAw r ight up just about that size--it grows very slightly but not a heck of a lot and s o it's just about something i n the order of 4 inches diameter. Something like that--it has little expansion ratio--i t expands as it comes out the nozzle slightly, and the~ it just goes sort of like a column and it fans out very s lightly but it goes up something in the order of 4 to 5 feet distance from the thruster. Did you ever get any pictures of that? No, we didn't . We had all our cameras stowed at the time we got that cranked up . We intended to. Systems Shutdown - It worked just like advertised and we turned the prop valves off , very shortly then it rtms out of f uel and stops firing and you notice that there is a little burning around all the nozzles. There we got a little residual fuel--not much--just a little bit-- it dribbles and fumes after i mpact- -probably very neglible. I don;t really think we got them after impact , I think we got them while still airborne . But they were almost
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