The spacecraft would land 21 minutes and 49 seconds after retrofire.

Retrofire came 190 hours 27 minutes 43 seconds into the mission over Hawaii.

Retrofire was planned to take place at 4 hours, 32 minutes, and 26 seconds after launch.

He allowed the spacecraft to continue to its normal second orbit retrofire position near California.

After large efforts by ground control and 5 attempts at retrofire over two days, the craft was finally coming down for a landing.

There were no plans for a retrofire as the spacecraft would reenter by itself after four days.

They are scheduled to retrofire and return to an orbit around Earth on March 26.

Drew up abort plans and was responsible for determination of retrofire times.

The retrofire, re-entry, and landing took place without incident on 23 September.

"He says that every time we're in retrofire," Cromwell grumbled.

The spacecraft repeated this drift and correction process nine times before retrofire.

Waiting in endless anticipation for separation retrofire, which was truly the worst part of the trip.

"But they can retrofire into a lunar orbit," Reynaud insisted.

One after another they emerged from the Goldenwing's belly, flashed retrofire, and fell behind her.

The road behind lit up blue-white with the Russian's retrofire, and we slid forward in our seats.

The last day of the mission was short and retrofire came at 70 hours and 10 minutes into the mission.

The sun-seeking attitude control system is used to orient Vostok 1 for retrofire.

The spacecraft was maneuvered into retrofire attitude and the first retrorocket fired.

A large object was jettisoned when the craft was preparing for retrofire.

This after finding to his surprise that his automatic attitude controls had failed with retrofire only minutes away.

Snorkel, his first mate, made the comment every time the aged tramper went into retrofire.

By 935 seconds after the retrofire, the cabin pressure was zero, and remained there until the capsule entered the Earth's atmosphere.

"Just like this baby in retrofire," Snorkel commented.

Angus Quiller, the pilot, leaned forward, all his attention on the retrofire readout.

The service module of the Soyuz failed to separate after retrofire, but by that point it was too late to abort.