Gemini 7 Technical Debriefing, 1965

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yaw deflecting downward, more so than booster pitch deflec­
ting. Booster pitch deflected slight ly t o the right, indi­
cating, at guidance initiation, a booster-high trajectory.
But, they both came right back to null just after guidance
initiation, and that was it.
Borman
We did not have the feeling that we were lofted, and then
a sudden pitch down.
Lovell
No , th9re was no change of booster performance at all. It
was just t hat the needles deflected at guidance initiation
to say that we had gui dance initiation, and after that they
nulled and stayed that W83' from there on.
2.14 BECO
Borman
At BECO, the whole spacecraft was engulfed in a red flame .
I noticed that out of the corner of my eyes.
Jim, you
probably had a better view than I did.
Lovell
Yes.
Flames came up thP. side there to the window.
Borman
There was a definite, very brief instant of it, probably
in the order of milliseconds, but it did envelope the space­
craft and I, in my own mind, wonder if this is not the place
where we are picking up some of the smudge on t he window.
2.15
Stagins-
Lovell
Well, I did not notice any smudge at the time of staging.
Slayton You did not notice any?
Lovell
I did not notice any.
Of course, things were going pretty
fast.
I did notice it after we got into o=bit, but not at