Preliminary Gemini 4 Crew Debriefing, Part I, 1965

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to let those things fire for a long time and
maybe eat up t he drogue chute, and find ourselves
without propellant and without drogue chute , too .
So , once we got the drogue chute out, I let
the things fire for a while and turned the
electronics off. Maybe I turned it back on and
went to Rate Command , and off with the prop­
ellant valves .
I 'm not really sure.
White
I think you had it in Rate Command for a little
while - --i)robably while you were firing out the
fuel.
McDivitt
Yes, that ' s what I did .
I went to Rate Command
and let all the fuel fire out,
just as we had
planned.
So that I was sure that the rates were
high enough t hat we were going to fire out the
fuel without disturbing the thing on the drogue.
So we fell on down .
Ed got the snorkel on the
vent valve about 28 to 27 thousand feet .
We
came on down .
I watched the altimeter go through
11 ooo. .
6.8 Main Chute Deployment
McDivitt
At 10 600 I punched out the main chute.
I saw
it go out with a lot of crap and corruption flying
off the nose .
It went out and came out in a
reefed conditi on, and I saw and I said we had a
good reefed chute.
I don ' t guess you
-@!ONftiJEN 1IAL