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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).
59...,CQt~FH)Et~TIAf • erroneous gage . The suit comfort is no darn good . It ' s no worse than any other suit but there just isn't any way of having comfort in a pressure suit . The darn thing gives you pressure points and bulges and gouges and cuff dam scrapes you here and there and prevents you from being able to stretch and scratch and have any comfort . There isn't any comfort in the suit, I don't give a darn who says so, there just isn't any real comfort in a pressure suit . In the configuration that we flew in,from time we got our 6-4 Go, our helmets and •• • gloves came off, were stowed in the foot well and they were never put on again until just before retrofire . We ran the whole flight in just a basic pressure suit torso with the neck dam on and with wrists dams on and with a light-weight head set. I guess the comfort was as good as you could possibly haV@, but it still wasn' t any good and we cussed the pressure suit plenty of times . The controls were good on it . No problem there. The o Demand Regulator , as far as we could tell, worked fine. We had no real occassion to reall y stress it much or anything. The suit umbilical was Both my inlet and my exhaustalways in the way. ~~9i ►,•f.A~ 2
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