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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).
85c€~F,6 Ef~ fI Cooper FCSD REP Conrad Cooper Conra d Cooper awhile and it finally ran itself out and stopped. But it looked l ike the accelerometer bi as took off or did s omething that just made IVI 's run . I don't rea lly understand what happened but I wanted to note that an anomaly. I felt that the thing was running right and that this might have been a little glitch so I didn't report it to ground because, well , later on we didn ' t really have any need for catch up or anything like t hat and it seemed to operat~ okay. Okay , let's see. Orbit maneuvers. I don't think there was How about the powering down and powering up? It shut down and started up d~t as advertised. ON with the on s witch and 18 seconds it went through it's s elf check and the green start comp l i ght ca.me on green and it did it every time . Okey, Orbit maneuvers we have already covered that. We powered it up for all our updates and it accepted it every time, llO strain·. Retro fire, you got those numbers through , We gave the number to .. . . IVI's after retro fire . Read 269 aft and 10 left and 181 down.
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