Gemini 7 Technical Debriefing, 1965

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:Sor:ma.n
Re did a very good job. We knew just what to do. W& had
all the equip,nent with us and everything went very smoothly.
MS0--2 ana,..3 turned out to be not :much of a problem because
at about the seventh dq we turned it on and left it on for
the rest of the flight. The Berigee Adjust :tv1.aneuver 0 Jim
ma.de the ~erigee Aijust Manuever.
We did it on stars with­
out a platform. I was timing for Jim and I think I fouled
up.
We planned to use a perigee to 102 miles, and I think
we wotmd up with about 15 feet per second too much. It
seemed like about 117 miles.
One of the reasons that was
causing this was
we had come back into the vicinity of the
booster, and just about midwny through the burn the booster
venting that was still occurring suddenly lit up, became
lit up. It looked like we were flying through a lot of
foreign objects or debris.
I was afraid that we were going
to hit so.mething.
At the same time this trailing wire came
forward and slapped the spacecraft.
Lovell
That is where I stopped.
:Sor.man
Yes. After we had stopped and it nit us, I looked down
and got confused and said,"No, we haven't burned enough",.
·&> we burned for about five seconds :more.
We had a trail­
ing primer cord that would flop around and we didn't know
what it was at the time, but it came forward when Jim
stopped burning and flopped on the spacecraft. It ,nade a