Preliminary Gemini 4 Crew Debriefing, Part I, 1965

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6. 3 .04 g
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We didn ' t even have a time for .04 g's did we?
No .
We d.id:a' t h:we ::1.ny-thing like that.
We
started rolling reentcy at 400 000 feet, except
that I didn ' t start it until ah-.ut 45 seconds
after that to make sure that I had good atti bd9.
I started the thing around the way I wanted it.
Just .<.i,lxmt this tim,~, we saw the retro adapter
start floating back past us.
I figured the
other day that thing was small-end- forward
rather than blunt-end-forward.
I'd sa:y it was front-end- forward too.
We saw the spherical end of the retrorockets.
Remember?
Yes.
All four of them.
All fo·..1r of them.
We didn ' t see the nozzle.
It had done a 180-degree turn small-end­
forward and it was as stable a8 a rock.
We
could see the whip antennas sticking out to the
side.
Exactly the position it should go to .
That's
the heaviest end, I would presume.
It would tend to trim that way too.
Except that
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