Gemini 5 Technical Debriefing, Part II, 1965

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).

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never got it to read through the compute1r now I
Yes, but my analog read- outs read.
Yes, but wait a minute, your analog readouts only
go to 300,000 feet and that's 50 miles El.l'l.d we were
never within 50 miles of it, so . . ..
Yes, but they rea d correctly and I got Hteering,
radar steering.
Yes, but the analog couldn't have read correctly.
If it read anything on your scale it wa.E1 wrong
because it should have read only digital . . . .
What I saw it was showing that it was getting a
r eading.
Oh, yes, well , there was no doubt that ue were
locked up.
The R dot was going right on out past there , you
know, and then it came on past .
But I don't know whether if the problem in the