Preliminary Gemini 4 Crew Debriefing, Part I, 1965

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believe, and that ' s when I went to sleep.
I
woke Ed up and I went to sleep at this time .
White
Actually we got our update while you were
asleep the time before.
We got the update for
how to perform the retro.
We figured that with
the procedure they gave ue, if we followed it,
we would get a three- sigma miss distance of
70 nautical miles.
We were to use an 0AMS
r etor with a manual retro.
At this time, we
were going to push the manuel button.
They
didn ' t know at this time that the TRS was
working all right .
They later came in and
told us to use the automatic mode of time.
We
were to use zero-lift rolling.
We were to
start the terminal maneuver at the 400 000 foot
marker.
They told us to expect to encounter
about 8 g's during the reentry.
We were told
the recovery area had three to four foot waves,
18 knot winds, and good weather.
I
1 ll cover
this more later.
White
There wasn ' t much more.
We got an update.
I
took a few more pictures, and I did a medi cal
pass.
During that hour and 40 minutes there,·wasn ' t
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