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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).
. 58 Cooper Humidity. The suit seemed to run :pre·;ty d:ry. I wasn't conscious of any great amount of :perspiration in it a t all. A couple of times we had fairly heavy work loads , I was aware of any :.ittle cool a:ir:' and felt like it was kind of drying sweat . CO2. We got two or three indications of CO? on the PC02 gage. One thing , when ever a station gives you a I cali.brate well you get a big jump on t hat gage but there are other times when we weren't even near a statiun when that gage came up and began to give an indication and one time it gave such a :positive indication for quite a :period of ttme t hat we got a little concerned about it because it was right when all this other stuff was going on , day 5 and we had shut down , control systems had failed and we were destined for three days of drifting and the PC0 started up . So, we :pulled out one of the 2 tapes , one of the CO2 tapes we had on board and gave a check of the suit circuit there and i t showed that it was below 2 millimeters of a,., two milli meters of mercury was what it was .. . below that anyway. We probably assumed it was tr.is usually 6j@t4FIDE ►◄T IA-4, •
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