Preliminary Gemini 4 Crew Debriefing, Part II, 1965

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very interesting things all the way down ,
including ourselves .
We didn't observe anything in particular that
happened at 400 000 feet.
The ionization· was
where we really started picking up the fire.
I think we kind of timed that with what you
were talking about the retro adapter up there .
You said , "Hey, look at it starting to burn.: 11 ,
and about that time we were starting to throw
a sheath around us to.
That 's right. It looked l ike to me that it
went from pink to orange and then went out to
a reddish-orange, and then in the mids t of the
reddish-orange you could see little tongues of
green occasionally.
It was quite pretty.
I think another thing about it too is that there
wasn't as much of it as I thought there would
be.
I can't say that I was disappointed in not
seeing more fire, but when I first heard about
John ·Glenn's reentry,
I
envisioned
more fire coming out .
In this case you might
call it just a sheath.
That's right .
There wasn' t a big blaze,by a
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