Gemini 7 Technical Debriefing, 1965

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went out about forty feet against a dark background.
You
could see this light haze going out about forty feet. It
wasn't a bell shaped pattern, as we thought it was going
to be, but it was like a garden hose, straight out. At
a distance we could not see the bright flash of ignition
in the chamber itself. All we could see was the haze
going out. But as we got in closer, we could start
picking up the bright flash, ma.inly because of attitude I
suspect, as we were getting closer to see it. It had no
effect on our spacecraft at all. They actually fired
about twenty feet away with their forward firing thrusters
to us, and departed.
l3or:man
They got in back behind us in the adapter and fired their
forward firing thrusters and .made the curtain jiggle. 1
don I t know how far away they were when they did this.
1
hope they can tell us, and give you some idea of the effect
that these thrusters :might have on the EVA Mission. It ' s
just like firing a rocket at night. I guess that's the way
we expected it to look. That is exactly what you are doing,
firing a rocket at night.
10.4 Reentry
Borman
We retrofired in the darkest, .most dis.m.al part of the night
slcy-, and we didn't see anything. We didn't see
Adapter
Separation. We didn't see My of the retros fire. We d.idn't