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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).
78 Cooper You could dUlllp OUZD or something. Conrad Yes, I ... . Cooper But the neoprene things are hard to s ee· through , you could actually push them up to the control knob to read what you got on there. Conrad Let ' s face it Gordo, once we got those controls set, we never moved them. Cooper Yes, that ' s right, Once you set t hem you very seldom ever set them from there on. Sc,, I guess it really isn ' t too bad. It's kind of a :Mickey Mouse thing..,, -..net iit works-, I guess. Conrad Those light weight head sets , Those PlEll'ltronic head sets that we had, I don't think 8J'tybody can argue about the voice quality and they are really comfortable up there. Cooper Yes, and they were really good reception , too . Conrad Just pull a plug out of my ear and l et it hang and turn the sleep switch on when I W8J'tted to sleep. Never took the think off my head in 7 or 8 days I don ' t believe. I'd sometimes take it off and hook it under here for sleeping, but after E1 'While I just got so used to having it on my head I just unpull the ear plug and let it hang ancl turn the sleep switch, and the sleep switch worted grea t ...•
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