Preliminary Gemini 4 Crew Debriefing, Part I, 1965

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four days.
I hadn't thought about this .
The last time that altimeter does me any good is
when I go through 10 600.
Well , I guess I use it
down to about five or six thousand when I 'm t rying
to get the two-point suspension. It ' s useful there ,
too .
It was a good indication that we were coming up to
1000 feet and to get ready for landing, Jim.
Yes.
Like I said earlier, how do you get ready for
l anding? All we did was sit there.
We 've got to stop throwing switches.
Yes, I guess so.
I think it would be a good procedure to go ahead
and get an altimeter setting.
I suppose it would.
It only takes you a second to
crank the thing in.
Yes . It ' s there.
We ought to use it ,
Well, we hit the water with a real wallop.
Then I
sort of felt that we went into about a 150-degree
roll to the left and were dragged backward.
We
were almost upside-down going through the water
backwards ,
Now, the CAG here saw us hit.
He saw
us from about 100 feet on down,
He said it looked
like to him that we came down and hit the water
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