Preliminary Gemini 4 Crew Debriefing, Part I, 1965

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6.9 Conununications
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could see that too well, could you?
No, I couldn't see the chute out.
I saw it
finally when it deployed.
I saw the thing hanging up there just the way it
was supposed to, and then the thing dereefed,
came billowing out just the way it should, and
:'said, "We ' ve got a good chute".
One edge of it
collapsed and came back in and collapsed about
a third of the chute. We've seen a lot of movies
of these chutes corning out, so I wasn't really
worried about the thing collapsing. It went
in and came back out.
There weren't any communications that I could
tell were there? Maybe we received some trans­
missions on the drogue, but I'm not really sure.
As soon as we •deployed the main chute the antenna
came off.
So we couldn't talk to anybody after
that .
I don't think we got anythi ng on t he drogue.
I ' m not really sure that we did.
I don't think we did.
Shoot!
We were getting thrown around so that
we couldn't have heard anything anyway.
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