Gemini 7 Technical Debriefing, 1965

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sensational. Jim was giving vivid descriptions on what was
happening, a.nd I was watching the ba.11.
Lovell
That's one thing that no one had ever told us before. I was
a.ma.zed.
Maybe it was peculiar to the spacec.raft.
Borman
No, Tom and Wally
h.a.d mentioned it.
Lovell
Oh, is that ri ght? That ablative material went back and hit
the forward end near the recovery section, rather the RCS
secti on; and I thought well, I never heard of this before,
and I was a little worri ed that maybe we were too fa:r off,
a.nd the stuff was going to start getting into recovery
sections. But it tiirned out to be okay.
Borman
Another thing was that the windows really got scrounged up
on that ree.ntry; that's something else. I could hardly see
out of my window.
Stu.ff was coming over from the heat
shield and hitting it. It was really gunky.
6.3 Aceelera.tio!!,_Pro.file
Borman
Okay.
The acceleration profile was very smallo It was a
very high 11.ft reentry, and of course, this results in a
low g and long duration build up.
No problem at all.
604 Spacecr&ft Control
Borman
Spacecra.ft control was excellent until we g'Ot down to
100,000 .feet or even below 100,000 .feet.
We turned on