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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 yaw. Build up to any rate you wanted to . Over a period of time , one time we got up to about 12 degrees per second. You just sit there, and drift it will build you up more , and more and more . You can really hear it pop off back there . You can hear i t "shhh". You see this tremendous big fiel d of stars go by. If i t ' s in the early or lat e night you just , the whole sky is just complet ely covered with this , just millions of stars.. . part icles, liquid gases ... I guess . ~uantity measur ing system; worked perfectly satisfactory. Flow rates were good. Pressure was . . . pressure was fine . It got up ; I don ' t think you ever need to use, unless you are doing something like EVA , I don't think you ever should consider ever using a heater on that oxygen system because i t all by itself fairly rapidly gets on up there to boil off pressures . Boil off temperatures I should say. How about BJC.Jp, UTE, Di d you ever use that? Used O Hi gh Rate when they were purging the cabin. 2 It worked f ine , reset fine. We used i t then for landing. Manual heater we never used. The controls ; we did very little as f ar as doing anything wi th
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