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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).
62 about 45 minutes before retrofire we turned the cabin fan on and let it run for about 30 minutes and i t decreased the cabin t emperatu:ce about 20 degrees . Got it down about 50 degre,:)S and then turned it off prior to starting retrofire . Cabin pressure relief valve; never actuall;r did we . . . the cabin pressure dual regulator , the release side of the cabin pressure regulator was the only one that ever . . . . We never heard the cabin relief valve actuate after launch . During launch we were going up we heard it moan a couple of times . The cabin vent val ve . Th•? cabin vent valve, we actuated it on the way down once since we couldn't maintain positive pressu:~e we actuated the vent and the snorkel. Cabin rep:~essurizati on . We never checked it because we didn ' t need to. Cabin air inlet valve . We actually never ran any check on it . Cabin air recirc , we had open the whole time . Fully open . Pri mary o2 . System monitoring, system monitoring was ea:3y. Primary o2 was very good. The only problem we had with it, it kept yawing us around when it was venting. Whenever it would get up to vent pre:3sure and vent, why, it would give us a bit of a yaw, left
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