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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).
87 Conrad Now, there was one thing there, I don't know if it was the radar or the computer. But , the first time we flew over the Cape and locked up on the back up REP on the ground, it read out the digital millage to a gnat's eyebrow. It locked up at 248,66 miles and I don 't believe it will read any higher than that supposed to be 250 , but I had the same number at the other end so I suspect that that is as high as it will read out. And it tracked t hat thing right over the Cape where we got down to, I think we got down to .... our slant range at the closest approach was 161 miles or something like that, and everyti.me I punched it up to the range went do'Wl'l. and - - Cooper Man that was really beautiful, just beautiful, The radar itself stayed locked on for .. . . I felt like you could a lmost point out the tower it was right on the mila.ge mcxl e. Conrad But in the catch up mode it read out to 248 . 66 miles both at the start of lock up and the end of lock up , and I was really impressed with that. Then after that we always locked the Cape . The r adar locked on like it should on the REP , but we
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