| 11. | Retrofire was planned to take place at 4 hours, 32 minutes, and 26 seconds after launch.
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| 12. | The last day of the mission was short and retrofire came at 70 hours and 10 minutes into the mission.
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| 13. | Six minutes after retrofire; Glenn maneuvered the spacecraft into a 14-degree nose up, pitch attitude for reentry.
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| 14. | Retrofire took place off the west coast of Africa, near Angola, about 8000 km from the desired landing place.
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| 15. | The service module of the Soyuz failed to separate after retrofire, but by that point it was too late to abort.
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| 16. | Christopher Kraft alerted the Hawaii controllers to be ready to initiate retrofire to bring the spacecraft down in the Pacific, if necessary.
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| 17. | He also alerted controllers at Point Arguello, California, to be ready to initiate retrofire as MA-5 passed over their position.
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| 18. | After large efforts by ground control and 5 attempts at retrofire over two days, the craft was finally coming down for a landing.
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| 19. | It malfunctioned yet again during retrofire, leading to a steeper than planned ballistic reentry and a hole being burned in the heat shield.
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| 20. | When leaving orbit ( "'E "') the angle downward was increased to 34? which was the angle of retrofire.
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