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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).
70 FCSD Rep Conrad Cooper Conrad Conrad I looked down in there and I marked ·;he t ape , you know with my pencil , and put it back in the tape recorder and turned it on and sure enough it wasn ' t running. The motor burned ou·; in the tape recorder. Now, when I turned the tape recorder switch ON and OFF I could see a slight rise in the ammeter but I think what was happening was that we were getting the amplification part of it , but that the motor to the tape recorder was not running, tt wasn't driving the tape . That seemec. to be the f ailure . While we're here why don't you flip back a couple of pages while you were out and see jf there is anythi ng that you want to add. Okay. Yes ,. Gordo covered the h~ater operation on the ECS . Okay, they came on pretty early in the flight and we kept checking to see that it was truly working and it was . System check covered the fumes and we got fumes at 27 ,000 and we were very light because we did have the ... . Under EX:;S I covered how you loved your pressure suit for mobility and comfort . Yes , okay. I won ' t say anymore on that . Finger tip lights . Listen, now there ' s a very in- .- o ►,fJOet>Jflltt
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