Gemini 7 Technical Debriefing, 1965

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s.ee Retro Pack&ge jettison. At reentry we didn't have a
lighted horizon at 400,000 feet. We didn 1t have a lighted
horizon until we were below 400,000 feet. This was not
particularly to my liking; although we picked it up about
330,000 feet. After then, it was all right.
Lovell We saw ionization.
Borman Yes, we did.
Lovell The whole window started to be just a glow outside. Then it
got into the ri?18S of this ionization layer. It started out
to be just glowi?18.
Borman When we went subsonic it looked like there was a bunch of
steam and flame that engulfed the nose eection. I think
this may have been when the spacecraft finally went subsonic,
right before drogue deploy. You could see the spacecraft
oscillations, and you could reference them with the drogue,
which was relatively steady. You could also reference them
with the sky. You didn't have any stars or anything, but
you could just pick out the motions across the sky. At
times it was pretty violent. It would be intereeting to see
the magni~u.d.e of the oscillations and the rates.
Borman The drogue deploy was very evident.
We saw the drogue chute.
We saw the Rand R Can come off, and then I saw it following
us down in the parachute, off to one side. Main chute