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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 fine for two cartidges worth and then quit. Was i t two or four? I don't lmow, it was some l ow number. Maybe it was four . Anyway, it quit fairly early in the flight . The tape recorder was finished. DCS . Ok8iY , until the last 30 minutes of the flight , the DCS couldn't have been better. The updates were good , the ground coordination was f ine on i t . The things they gave us to put in the MDIU were given in a good manner and were put in. No problem. Pete got them all loaded in fine . No problem at all until that last up-date we got from Carnarvon which they updated us with our compu t er a~d reentry con figuration, after we wer e all ready supposed to have our last update from Houston and without telling everybody to look on his board and see what mode our computer was in, he sends this update which is just about ... blew our cork there . And which I think at this point right now, having experienced this one occasion of this happening at the worst possible time it could happen in, my recommendation right now to flight crews is that they fly the DCS circuit breaker in the OFF position. I concur.FCSD Rep ee~◄ F tDe~ Al~
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