Preliminary Gemini 4 Crew Debriefing, Part I, 1965

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Whichever way we saw it , it's on the tapes ,
because we discussed it pretty thoroughly.
That ' s right , as we were doing it.
But I sort
of vaguely recall that watching the retros
after us as we s]!lllrl around , it started glowing
a little bit and then you could see this big
spray come off the front--shock or something.
It looked like it was just melting and corning
away.
It just looked like a great big orange
mushroom back there, and that's when it really
started falling behind us.
We hadn ' t felt any g ' s at all.
Had you felt any
Igs?
Not that time .
I ' m sure that I hadn ' t felt any g' s .
I was wondering why we were so light .
We were
looking down at Florida. We had watched Florida
go by and commented on it .
Shoot , we real ly made a low altitude pass across
the States.
We should have probably filed a DD­
175 to get clearance.
We had to come through the control zone, you
know, at Eglin.
They're kind of sensitive about