Preliminary Gemini 4 Crew Debriefing, Part II, 1965

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10.4 Reentry
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long shot.
It was almost like a veil of silk.
There was
no flame .
Well , in -:reentry we r olled.
We didn't have any
trouble in seeing the· horizon as we went around,
but
we
were
rolling all the way down .
We did see ourselves crossing the ground, since
wE'.l were heads-up a fair amount .
We could look
out and could see anything we wanted to see.
saw the Gulf Coast , and then out across Florida.
A little bit of dizziness was associated' with
the rolling reentry as far as the visual-­
Yes .
It wasn't really dizziness . It was just
t he fac t that you could tell that you were going
around in a circle at a relatively high rate.
It didn't bother us. It's just that you could
feel it.
The spacecraft didn't oscillate very
much during reentry.
Anything else there, Ed?
No.
When we deployed the dr ogue, it really made the
ride interesting.
I couldn't see the drogue
very well .
Ed could see it probably better than
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