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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Cooper Anyt:iJlle you move around in there.
Conrad You get in the habit of real fast checking that.
Cooper I would strongly recommend to anybody in any crew
that anytime they do any moving around o::- turning
around in the cockpit that they run a c:Lrcui t
breaker check.
Conrad we did.
Cooper Because, invaribly, we would always find one off.
Everytime we would run a check, somewhere or another
we would find one knocked off.
Conrad We usally found a reason for it though, t he over
head ones we knocked off with the water gun so we
stopped putting it up there. And the orni I thought
I knocked off on the right hand side, I came to the
conclusion that was one the o heater blnw out. It
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just blew it off .
Cooper And the mirrors worked excellent. I must say,
Deke, you do need that in-flight repair occasionally
to tighten those mirror --
Conrad You mean the postlanding kit.
Cooper Whew! Gracious! I lost my head. The pontlanding
kit to tighten up the adjustments on thoeie mirrors
to keep them tight . Repair reticle, you know ,
things like that.
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