Gemini 5 Technical Debriefing, Part II, 1965

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of the adapter sep now.
I think they're all three
fairly realistic of the t rainer.
And now in adapter sep you get a little acceleration
force with it, and you feel that .
You really feel
that-­
Well , it shudders the whole thing as you come off-­
as you separate .
And ret r ofire to me w~s a big
surprise.
I t was a bi g surprise to me , too.
I remember in Mercury tha.t everybody had different
feelings on what retrofire felt like , a~d I didn't
f eel that they were that distincti ve or th~t great
at all in my previous flight, but in this one I
felt like we were on the front of Stapp ' s rocket
sledo
Yes .
Everyone that fire.
We were pretty G sensative by this point , 8 days of
weightlessness.
I t fel t to me like we were just hanging on the-­
Yes.
Gordo said he thought we wound up going in the
other direction and I had the decided foeling that
we pitched up and did a loop everytime one of them
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