From: Vulch@vulch.org   
      
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             Snidely  wrote:   
      
    > Gemini had the reentry rockets ("retrograde rockets") on the Adapter   
    > Module, so that had to be jettisoned after the deorbit burn.   
    > Astronautix says, "The sections of the adapter module remained in   
    > decaying orbits and were burned up during reentry."  That hints that   
    > the AM might not have entered as quickly as the Reentry Module.   
      
   Gemini had the adapter module in two sections. The first section was   
   dropped off in orbit which exposed the re-entry motors, the section   
   holding the motors was then dropped after the burn.   
      
              Anthony   
      
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