Gemini 5 Technical Debriefing, Part II, 1965

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can goes on off. It looks just like it does in
those sequential drawings .
Main chute deploy-­
we ' ve already covered.
We anticipated the landing
attitude as being kind of a jar. It is kind of a
whip action there, more than anything. As long
as you are braced for it, it is no problem.
And
then on landing-- to me that was a su.l'.'prise, because
on landing I could hardly believe we had hit .
It was so easy.
We didn't go under water, didn't
splash water, or anything.
The windows were
clear when we hit .
I could see the water as we
hit .
I could see the chute.
When I pur..ched the
chute jettison, the chute just floated c-ut in
front of us and slightly off to one side•.
The
windows were clear.
They had some conde•nsation
on them but not bad. We could see out of them
very clearly.
We condensed them over a little
more just breathing on the inside, I gue,ss.
But when the frogmen got there the windows were
still clear enough that they came up anc. got up
close to the window and we gave them the, thumbs
up.
They visually got our thumbs up signal with
no problem. The only abnormality was that after
we got on the water AIR BOSS apparently was not
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