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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 • the Secondary O2 . Mine was ope:1, Pete' s was closed the whole flight . That's the way they stayed, just like for the check list . Never saw one quiver in either one of them the ',1hole mission. Pressure stayed right? Pressure stayed right where it was on launch. CO2 partial pressure . The gauge was some·,1hat erratic and gave us two or three readings that we had CO partial pressure~one of which we finally 2 checked and found we did not have and so then we disbelieved the gauge . . . : After that, although it generally read down at zero . Coolant : Coolant loops worked real fine . w~ were -running two coolant loops ON most of the time sin,Je we had fuel cells running . For 2 twenty- hour per iods we had fuel cell, section 2 of the fuel ,)ells shut off , and the coolant loops shut off. In one period of time we had ci rcuit breaker pulled on coolant loop number 1 coolant loop . Secondary cool ant 1oop , then we were running on pum:? B and with bYJ>ass ON. BYJ>assing it around so we were heating before bringing the section 2 back nn the line after long shut down peri od we bYJ)assed the cool ant loop , the secondary coolant loop , in order to warm -€8-t◄ FID[pqf6tL_ ~
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