The PHS malfunction yawed the spacecraft 25 degrees to the right, accounting for of the overshoot; the delay caused by the automatic sequencer required Carpenter to fire the retrorockets manually. This effort took two pushes of the override button and accounted for another 15 to of the overshoot. The thrusters had a set sequence of ignition, and that sequence was delayed by Carpenter manually firing them. This added another , producing a overshoot. The flight lasted 4 hours and 56 minutes, during which "Aurora 7" had attained a maximum altitude of and an orbital velocity of .