Gemini 5 Technical Debriefing, Part I, 1965

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7,1 Impact
Cooper
Conrad
Cooper
Conrad
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LANDING AND RECOVERY
Impact, was very very soft.
We just hit.
We hit
very easy.
We didn't go under water at all .
We
didn' t change attitude one bit from t he time we
hit the water.
We went bloop.
We just pitched down a little bit
The nose pitched down 8 or 10 degrees but the water
didn't even come over the windows.
lhe main hit
parachute release, the chute drifted off in front
just slightly out to the right of us md just sat
out there in the water on the right fJr a long
time.
We did skip this one thing here with this 6. 13
post main check off list .
We got all the way
through that and I wanted to say that I had the
decided impression that we got to the post main and
got back over here on this 2000 foot check list
pretty fast.
I mean that time happene,d faster than
the simula tor but it took us a little while to get
our heads unlocked, and after we went to 2-point
and get back on this check- off list, and boy, we
hadn ' t a:n:y more gotten through this when we were
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