Preliminary Gemini 4 Crew Debriefing, Part I, 1965

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we would, but it really wasn't too hard.
To put everything in a comparison, the ride on the
retro was more than I expected , the drop to a two­
point suspension was less than I expected, and the
impact was not as much as I had experienced on the
drogue, but more than I had expected. In other
words, the biggest surprises I had in order of
~agnitude were the ride on the drogue, the impact,
and I didn't think that I had much surprise at all
in the two-point.
I was expecting a big jolt and
got not as much as I had expected.
We'd gone over the normal Water Egress Checklist
in flight before we came down.
We did this in
that three-hour period while we were preparing
for retrofire.
I read it over to E:l while he was
stowing things, and we went over it in detail
again as to what we would do.
Also we went over
the emergency egress in case we had to do that.
So we had it fresh in our minds.
We turned everything off that wasn 1 t needed after
landing.
Ed had the Post-Landing Checklist and he read it
out to me--the things that I had to do.
The only