Preliminary Gemini 4 Crew Debriefing, Part I, 1965

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7. 1 Impact
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7,0 LANDING AND RECOVERY
We got down to about 300 feet, and I said, "I
guess we ought to get ready for landing." But as
John Young says , "How will you get ready for landing
this thing?" So as he did, we just sat there,
and we went through zero feet, I believe, on the
altimeter.
We hit very close to the water with zero on the
altimeter.
I think we hit at about minus 100 feet or so.
Any­
way, we really plunked down in the water.
We hit
ten times harder than I expected to hit .
The
altimeter was set at the lift-off setting.
I
didn ' t fool around with setting it.
That 's an interesting point .
They ought to give
you an altimeter setting for the landing area.
I don ' t think that would do any good.
I wouldn ' t
trust that altimeter within a thousand feet .
No, but I ' d rather have my reading on it that much
more accurate.
You've got a ship sitting out there
that could give you the exact altime+.er setting.
Here we had an altimeter that we hadn't set for
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