Preliminary Gemini 4 Crew Debriefing, Part I, 1965

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orange or pinkish flames coming out. It looked
like the flame was coming up around my side of
the spacecraft like this .
Was it doing that on
your side , too?
Yes . It looked like it was almost coming from
three points .
Okay.
Probably what it was doing was corning
around both sides because of the angle of attack
and going out this way.
But I definitely could
see the orange fire come up around the l eft­
hand side of the spacecraft and out in front of
the window, and pretty soon I saw some green
fire-­
Coming out of the top -­
Oh, is that where you saw it? I didn't. I saw
the green fire down close to the left- hand side
coming up over the nose inside of the red fire ,
and then it was all swirling around there.
Then
while we were coming down, we were coming down
in a r oll, but with our relatively high L/D, we
were in a great big roll with a big wallow.
guess this is really indicative of how much lift
we had.
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