Spacelog Mercury 6

Cabin pressure coming down by 7.0 okay; flight very smooth now.

Sky looking very dark outside.

Cabin pressure is holding at 6.1 okay.

Roger. Cabin pressure holding at 6.1.

Roger. Have had some oscillations, but they seem to be damping out okay now.

Coming up on two minutes, and fuel is 102-101 [percent], oxygen 78 102 [percent]. The g's are building to 6.

Roger. Reading you loud and clear. Flight path looked good. Pitch 25 [degrees] Standby for.

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.

Roger. We confirm staging on TM.

Roger.

Still have about 1 1/2 g's. Programming. Over.

There the tower went right then. Have the tower in sight way out. Could see the tower go. Jettison tower is green.

Roger.

1 1/2 g's.

Roger, Seven. Still reading you loud and clear. Flight path looks good.

Roger. Auto Retrojettison is off; Emergency Retrojettison Fuse switch, off; Retrojettison Fuse switch, off.

UHF/DF to normal.

Flight path looks good; steering is good.

Roger. Understand everything looks good; g's starting to build again a little bit.

Roger.

Friendship Seven, Bermuda has you.

Roger. Bermuda standby. This is Friendship Seven. Fuel 103-101 [percent], oxygen 78-100 [percent]. All voltages above 25, amps 26

Roger. Still reading you loud and clear. Flight path is very good. Pitch, -3 [degrees].

Roger.

My pitch checks a -7 [degrees] on your -3 [degrees].

Roger, Seven.

Friendship Seven. Fuel 103-101 [percent], oxygen 78-100 ]percent], amps 25, cabin pressure holding at 5.8.

Roger. Reading you loud and clear. Seven, Cape is Go; we're standing by for you.

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.

Roger. 20 seconds to SECO.

Roger.

Indicating 6 g's.

Say again.

Still looks good.

Roger.

SECO, posigrades fired okay.

Roger, stand. …

Roger. Zero-g and I feel fine. Capsule is turning around.

Oh, that view is tremendous

Roger. Turnaround has started.

Roger. The capsule is turning around and I can see the booster during turnaround just a couple of hundred yards behind me. It was beautiful.

Roger, Seven. You have a go, at least 7 orbits.

Roger. Understand Go for at least 7 orbits.

This is Friendship Seven. Can see clear back; a big cloud pattern way back across towards the Cape. Beautiful sight.

Roger, still reading you loud and clear. Next transmission, Bermuda.

Roger. Understand next transmission, Bermuda. Capsule did damp okay and turned around. Scope has extended, okay. Taking off the filter I had on it before launch.

Making electrical check.

All batteries 25 or above, on main. Going through orbit checklist.

Roger, Friendship Seven. Orbit checklist.

Landing Bag is off. Emergency Retrosequence, off. Emergency Drogue Deploy is off.

Emergency Landing Bag is next.

Roger. Landing Bag was already off. I got it first and reported it. Retromanual is off, and we're all set. This is very comfortable at Zero-g. I have nothing but very fine feeling. It just feels very normal and very good.

Friendship Seven. Standby for retrosequence times.

Roger. Ready to copy.

Roger. 1B, 00 17 50.

Roger. 1 Bravo is 00 plus 17 plus 50.

End of orbit, 01 28 54.

Roger, 01 plus 28 plus 54.

Roger, end of mission is 04 32 47.

Roger. 04 plus 32 plus 47. Do I have okay for resetting clock? Over.

Negative, don't reset the clock. Your V over V_R is unity, your apogee altitude is 138 [nautical miles] and are you starting your control systems check?

Roger. As soon as we get done with this transmission. I understand am I cleared to control systems check.

Roger. Starting controls check.

Starting controls check.

Your attitudes look okay here.

Friendship Seven. Anything to report on control systems checks.

Not yet, everything appears to be going okay. Am now on the yaw part of the check. Going off right on schedule.

Very good, very good.

Control so far is excellent. Very good, no problems at all so far on control.

Roger.

Aux Damp pulls it right in every time. No problems.

Very good.

Friendship Seven, Bermuda. Do you still read?

Roger, Bermuda, still read you loud and clear. Still completing control check. Having no problem at all so far.

Roger, you're still loud and clear.

Roger.

This is Friendship Seven. Working just like clockwork on the control check, and it went through just about like the Procedures Trainer runs. It's very smooth and I checked. …