Preliminary Gemini 4 Crew Debriefing, Part II, 1965

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McDivitt
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McDivitt
I could.
At this time I didn't !mow where the
sun was.
We oscillated back and forth on the
drogue probably as much as plus or minus 40
degrees.
I never did see the drogue dereef.
I couldn't see up to the top to see if it was
reefed or not .
I don ' t think there's much else about what we
could see on the drogue.
Can you think of
anything?
I could see it up there whipping back and forth ,
and I was sure hoping that it was going to hold
on and not pull the front end of the spacecraft
off, the way we were oscillating.
At Rand R-separate I saw parts of stuff out in
front .
My window was pretty well clouded over,
and I couldn' t see that well .
I did see something
separate , and I did see the chute start off. It
went all t he way up.
At main chute deploy I saw it
come out in a reefed condition, I checked the
chute and I didn ' t see any panels missing.
I
checked t he little circle in t he middle in the
parachute, and it seemed to be in fine shape.
I was expecting that we had a good chute. It