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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).
68 Cooper That's a drastic move to make , but just that one experience was just enough to convince me that if you can ' t 100 per cent trust everybody and the system isn ' t going to work, then you just don ' t dare trust it at all. I wouldn' t even think of not flying again wit h that DCS circui t breaker ON . Conrad At least for reentry. Cooper At lease in crew ... . Conrad You couldn't have hurt us any better than by sending t hat load up . Cooper Real- time t ransmitter,delayed-time trmsmitter, fine . Stand-by t ransmitter ... . Conrad We were out of fuel on Ring A. And we had 4.9 and 4. 6 left in Ring B. Which is good. It says that Ring A ran out sometime after Ring B ~ame on, which says we went around the world 1 1/2 ttmes and re- entered on Ring A by itself . That's :9retty impressive. 33 pounds of fuel It al so shows you how much fuel we used in Ring B. We tested Ring B and turned it off and didn ' t turn i t on u1til sometime less than 70,000 f eet and turned it back off again at 30,000 feet so we used the majorit;r of the fuel on RATE COMMAN]) in Ring B from 65 to 30 which says it probably fired continuously all thi? way down , 08-~~FIDE~~T.I•
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