A light went on in Mission Control indicating that Glenn’s heat shield was loose, which meant he would burn up in the atmosphere during reentry.

There was a Gemini crew module. Similarly, Gemini’s heat shield was made from a paste-like silicone elastomer material which was poured into a fiberglass honeycomb form.

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Temperatures measured on the heat shield and spacecraft were between 20 and 60 degrees Fahrenheit hotter than any planned Gemini reentry was expected to experience.

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Grissom and Young executed a retrofire burn to exit orbit, lowering their perigee to 45 miles, followed by a heat shield-protected reentry.

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Once they are in orbit, the spacemen will crawl through a hatch in the Gemini heat shield and enter the lab. For the return to earth, they will simply reverse the procedure, then detach from the ...