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Roger. Coming into high Q a little bit; and a little contrail went by the window or something there.
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Roger. Feels good, through max. Q and smoothing out real fine.
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Cabin pressure coming down by 7.0 okay; flight very smooth now.
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Coming up on two minutes, and fuel is 102-101 [percent], oxygen 78 102 [percent]. The g's are building to 6.
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Roger. BECO, back to 1 1/2 g's. The tower fired; could not see the tower go. I saw the smoke go by the window.
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There the tower went right then. Have the tower in sight way out. Could see the tower go. Jettison tower is green.
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Roger. Auto Retrojettison is off; Emergency Retrojettison Fuse switch, off; Retrojettison Fuse switch, off.
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Roger. Bermuda standby. This is Friendship Seven. Fuel 103-101 [percent], oxygen 78-100 [percent]. All voltages above 25, amps 26
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Friendship Seven. Fuel 103-101 [percent], oxygen 78-100 ]percent], amps 25, cabin pressure holding at 5.8.
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Roger. Cape is Go and I am Go. Capsule is in good shape. Fuel 103-102 [percent], oxygen 78-100 [percent], cabin pressure holding steady at 5.8, amps is 26. All systems are Go.
Spoken on Feb. 20, 1962, 2:48 p.m. UTC (62 years, 2 months ago). Link to this transcript range is: Tweet