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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).
=€8t 4Flli'0@1A1-- 83 Cooper It couldn't have worked better. It really did. Conrad The IGS Guidance was indicating everything that we did. We knew that we were going to loft a little bit and boy, it showed that we should pitch down at second stage and RGS did pitch us down, and when it pitched us down and put us on the IGS was centered up. I never saw any big needle deviations. I didn ' t see this big pitch transient at the end of the flight. I think it did wander just a little bit in pitch but none of this off the scale stuff. It looked like it was on the money all the wey , am I felt that if we ever switched we would be right down the pipe with it. Cooper Yes. I did too. Real good. Conrad In the insertion, boy, that math flow 6 ca.me up with all the right numbers. The numbers were just right. You didn't read the numbers. Where the ta~e began the numbers were on tbe money. Address 72 was 25,808. Address 94 R dot was plus 20 feet :pga 97 was plus 2 feet. 52 said we had a perfect :insertion that we had no apogee adjust . At perigee there was 00000 and then calculated , even though
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