Gemini 7 Technical Debriefing, 1965

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we hit the water, Although it was a good jolt, I wouldn't
say it WR.S anything outstanding. We hit, and Jim, your
window went under water, right?
The snacecraft rolled to the right, I believe.
Yes.
We hit, rolled to the right, and you went uncier water
and bobbed right up.
Right
I released the parachute and it fl oated in front of us for
several minutes.
I saw part of it on the left hand side there, or rather on
the right hand side as i t fl oated by my window,
It stayed there for several minutes . It' s just the way
it 's been described before.
There was an awful lot of fog on the window, though.
I
noticed tha t the humidity was such that you could hardly
see out. Very foggy .
I'm not sure that was humidity or that was from reentry.
Might have been from reentry, I don ' t know.
I did see the S2F on the chute.
We saw it while we were
stiJl on the chute coming down,
7.2 Checklists
The onl y thing I had about the checklists; during the
recovery phase, I had a hard t ime doing the checkl ist, in
fact, I had to give it to you, because I couldn't move my