Gemini 7 Technical Debriefing, 1965

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So that was very good work on the gro-.md ' s part.
Lovell
It looks like the initial computation of retrofire time
was off, and they already had a good o~bit on us.
Borman
I don't kno~ what it was, but they corrected it when we
came in.
5.10 Post Retro Jettison Checklist
Borman
The post retro jettison checklist was accomplished with no
problem.
Oh, I'm thinking; we did have some discussion about
as far as the retro goes.
With the--we ' ll cover this more
fully under su.i.ts. The question was whether to leave those
hoods on or off for retrofire. We found th,'3-t the noise and
the--I don't know why ~e didn't notice this at launch, but we
did during reentry, the noise from the air blowing in the G5C
suits was an impediment to crew discussion.
Lovell
It would go on the mikes and make a lot of noise on th;
mikes.
The mikes picked up a lot of whistle.
Borman.
Plus the fact that the vision out of that thing certainly
needs to be imporved.
So, we didn't kno,1 what to do--·,.;e
finally decided to leave them on for retro.fire.
6.0
REENTRY
6.1
Reen-gz Parameters '[:edate
Borman
Reentry.
400,000 feet, we had that time updated; and at
400,000 feet I rolled left 55 degrees, because this...or
fifty degrees, the value of the backup angles at tha t time.