Preliminary Gemini 4 Crew Debriefing, Part I, 1965

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McDi vitt
The update was awful , I think.
As I mentioned
earlier, they updated our TRS but the TRS was
obviously not running with the ground.
6.0 REENTRY
6.1 Reent:cy Par ameters Update
Mc:Divitt
We really didn't have a reentrs parameters up­
dl:l.te post-retro .
We went intn black-out pretty
quick.
There wasn ' t anything to update.
We
were going to st art rolling at 400 000 .
Re­
gardless of anything else, we had a pre•­
program_~ed reentry.
6.2 400K
White
We were at 400K before you got your
3 ­
Minute Update.
McDivitt
That's right.
At two minutes a~d 38 secondA
we were through 400 000 feet.
We got there in
a hurry.
I roll ed upside down, and I flew do,m
to 400 000 feet , which was to be at 2:38,
How­
ever, I thought that we ' d retrofired a little
early, so I wasn ' t in any great rush to start
my rolling reentry.
I dela¥ed about :another
30 or 40 secondA.
The only reason I delayed
was because I knew there wasn't any rush to get
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