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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).
92 ..a ef ◄ FIE)l!I ◄ 'Pl~L Conrad Cooper Conrad Cooper Conrad Cooper Conrad Cooper Conrad And the analog range was in close agreeme:'lt with the digital range when the REP was going away from us. Yep. The GLV fuel and oxidizer pressure gauges worked excellent except for the IPS . Stage two IPS fuel gauge failed to the full max deflect:i.on posi tion just shortly before POGO started, ancl stayed in the OFF position until after staging. It came back on and worked for about a minute and then went back off again. The altimeter worked just like it worked in the altitude chamber. Stopped at 96 800 feet . It was very jerky on the wa:y up. It was erratic going up . And I don ' t guess you ca.n expect a pressm·e alti meter like that to follow as fast as that booster is moving. It's r eally winding up. Coming back on reentry, why, we were apparently a lot slower on the other aide of it, because it unwound in a.n extremely steady manner and it seemed to be right with the barostat . It was right on the barostat , actually. And this is really the important thing.
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