Spacelog Gemini 3

T_R-30.

Roger.

Arm auto-retro.

Auto-retro armed. Squibs armed.

Roger, Molly Brown.

16 seconds, 15 seconds.

Okay.

10—9—8—7—6—5—4—3—2—1—Retrofire.

Auto-retro.

Manual retro.

Rocket 3.

Rocket 2.

Three of them.

Rocket 4.

Molly Brown, do you confirm all rockets firing normally?

All rockets fired normally and attitudes were right in the center.

Roger. Pass your IVI readouts on to Guaymas. RKV out.

Roger.

Molly Brown, Guaymas CAP COM. Do you copy?

Roger, Guaymas. The IVI's readings were 331 Aft, 105 Right, and 4 Up. Right in the center. An automatic superfine retrofire down the line.

Roger. I copy. 331 Aft, Right 105, Down 04.

Roger, and retropack has jettisoned.

Roger.

Molly Brown, Guaymas CAP COM.

Go.

I'm prepared to give you a T_R + 3 minute time hack if you need it?

That would be good.

Okay, and I have some event times for reentry: 400K feet 19 10 29 — stand by, Molly Brown.

Molly ?Brown, correct that 400K feet. That's 19 01 29.

Roger.

Molly Brown, I'll give you a time hack in approximately 30 seconds.

Molly Brown, Guaymas. Stand by for a T_R + 3 minute time hack.

5—4—3—2—1 -

MARK!

Do you copy?

Roger. We got it.

Molly Brown, stand by for Texas.

Roger.

Molly Brown, Cape CAP COM.

Molly Brown here, go ahead.

Roger. I'm getting your bank angle times momentarily. Your start of Communications Experiment is 19 05 14.

Roger. I have steering on the computer.

I didn't read you on that.

I'm getting initial bank angle commands from the computer.

Okay.

Molly Brown, I have your backup times on the bank angles and time to reverse bank angle.

Go ahead.

Bank left 45°. Bank right 55°. Time to reverse bank angle 19 08 17.

Roger. We are reading you now and then. How us?

Loud and clear. I have 30 ft/sec rate of descent. Passing through 5500.

You never took your D-Ring out, huh?

Roger, 5500.

Yes I did, too!

Oh, did you?

You better believe it!

Face plate open?

Open?

That's what the checklist says. Indicate Landing Control circuit breaker open.

What?

Indicate Landing Attitude Control circuit breaker open. That's that second one over on your panel. There you go.

ACME bias power off.

Molly Brown, this is Intrepid. It appears you will land 5 miles ahead of me. Over.

Roger. Thank you.

That'll be nice. Rescue beacon is on.

Do you have us in sight, Intrepid?

Not yet. Over.

Roger.

I'll turn the rescue beacon on, then.

Rescue beacon coming on.

Passing through 4000.

Suit fan to No. 2.

That drogue chute is right above us, or the pilot chute.

I understand the drogue is just above you, or the pilot chute.

Say again.

RCS heater's off. We did not do that heater check. Oh, well. We didn't need it anyways. RCS temperature was way up. Scanner Heater circuit breaker open.

Do you smell that fuel? Fumes from that stuff?

Yes. Let's close up.

Yes. I can see 'em smoking out there.

Suit flow increase.

They'll get quenched in a minute.

Reentry Antenna Experiment off.

Okay. Manual O₂ High Rate—PULL. I don't think we want to do that yet, do you?

No.

I imagine it is pretty bad in here.

The water seal is closed. AC power off.

Okay.

We're coming through the lower layer, John. You better get ready to hit. We're at 2000. No telling how far the altimeter is off.

Okay.

I'm as ready as I'll ever be.

You can put your head back.

Landing attitude was a bump, wasn't it?