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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).
69 Cooper FCSD Rep Conr ad damping those rates . But it sure was steady. We used almost 80 percent of the , yes , 80 percent of the fuel in Ring B from 65 to 30 . 65 down. On this voice tape recorder. Didn't you say ·it broke after you got 4 tapes. Yes, what happened was that the thing worked j ust · 1ike advertised. Two minutes before the tape ran out you get the little flicker on the tape recorder l i ght which is now up on the caution and warning panel, and at the end of the two minutes the TAPE OUT light comes on steady and that operat es just as advertised and then one day I put a new tape in it and Gordo and I held a big debriefing on it , About what all our storage was and present configuration that we were in in the spacecraft , and what we thought the six, I mean , 'that the seven troops would want to know about how we were using our storage and we thought the best place to do it was in flight right there while we were using it and we really put down some good dope and we also had some thoughts on Apollo on the darn thing and I figured we talked at least an hour on the thing, and I couldn't understand why it hadn't run out and
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