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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).
66 8,5 Communications Cooper Yes, we took it. It worked fine . It dries out very rapidly; you have to refill it with water frequently, but that is no problem . The drink gun fills it very readily. I t seems to be pretty accurate . Stowage , of course , is always a problem and we obtained readings at least once a day on it . Communications . Interphone : operation and quality were excellent. UHF performance : cJuntdown was excellent , orbit was excellent, md recovery was excellent , except that nobody was receiving our transmitter in the recovery area. However, they were receiving it back here in Houst)n. Twice AIR BOSS finally shut up talking long enough, said "some other station calling : me, say"' , and then immediately he'd launch off int) another long spiel and I don ' t know whether he was just drowning us out or whether they just never got us. At any rate , nobody was getting us , except Houston, a couple of times. But the UHF perfonnance in gen eral throughout the whole flight was excellent . And even AIR BOSS received when we w,~re on our way down in the parachute. He got two steers to us on the way down . Voice tape reco::.-der worked wQOhU,IDEN+t1'<~
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