I recommend try to use my add-ons with orbiter as a basis of comparsion for your aerodynamic modeling and trajectory profiles. I have done hundreds of ascents and re-entries comparing my numbers with orbiter to the numbers recorded in NASA documents.

This is very time consuming to do and having a reference in my add-on should speed your work and it's accuracy considerably.

I highly recommend this as it give a second by second printout of all sorts of aerodynamics information for an Atlas Ascent

http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/mscorbaddon/Mercury_AtlasTestObjectives.pdf?download

Once I was able to create the correct parameters forOrbiter's aerodynamics for Project Mercury making my other projects work correctly became very easy. The key parameters that varied for capsules were L/D, moments of inertia, and Parachute diameter.

My documentation site http://www.ibiblio.org/mscorbit/document.php

A better site than mine for documentation http://www.geocities.com/bobandrepont/spacepdf.htm Gemini as rich set of re-entry documentation

Thanks; this is great information. The Gemini re-entry stuff will be valuable; I have gotten it working via trial-and-error and a few scattered docs.