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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).
FCSD Rep Cooper all. Cabin temperature ran 70 to 75 degrees and humidity ran about 62 to 67 per cent the who l e flight . We have the figures somewhere here . We can get in here and get those ou t , but we have the figures where we mn daily checkr:i; H.:. 1,~i i ,1 t; once a day and generally t wo or three times a day ,of the wet and dry bulb readings . Okay. We have that back in the original check . Okay. CO2. The cabin, I thought was just really good. It was very seldom that you really got any smell in the cabin a t all . We thought the cabin would have a dark green cloud evolve out of it when they finally opened it, but I think the cabin, to the time we landed, was still a pretty fresh cabin. It seemed to scrub the odors, defication odor s would linger on for two or three or four hours perhaps , but it even scrubbed those out . You couldn ' t smell them at all . CO2; we had no--any kind of co2. Comfort day or night . The cabi n ran too cold at night , particularly when we· were drifting and had some fairly high drift rates the cabin got quite cold and in fact even froze up the windows. The cabin fan we never used at all until we turned it on just before retrofire ;
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