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00 00 05 04
John Glenn: SECO, posigrades fired okay.
00 00 05 10
CAPCOM: Roger, stand. …
00 00 05 12
John Glenn: Roger. Zero-g and I feel fine. Capsule is turning around.
00 00 05 18
John Glenn: Oh, that view is tremendous
00 00 05 21
CAPCOM: Roger. Turnaround has started.
00 00 05 23
John Glenn: 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.
00 00 05 30
CAPCOM: Roger, Seven. You have a go, at least 7 orbits.
00 00 05 35
John Glenn: Roger. Understand Go for at least 7 orbits.
00 00 05 44
John Glenn: This is Friendship Seven. Can see clear back; a big cloud pattern way back across towards the Cape. Beautiful sight.
00 00 05 54
CAPCOM: Roger, still reading you loud and clear. Next transmission, Bermuda.
00 00 05 58
John Glenn: 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.
00 00 06 02
John Glenn: Making electrical check.
00 00 06 18
John Glenn: All batteries 25 or above, on main. Going through orbit checklist.
00 00 06 25
CAPCOM: Roger, Friendship Seven. Orbit checklist.
00 00 06 27
John Glenn: Landing Bag is off. Emergency Retrosequence, off. Emergency Drogue Deploy is off.
00 00 06 38
CAPCOM: Emergency Landing Bag is next.
00 00 06 40
John Glenn: 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.
00 00 06 58
CAPCOM: Friendship Seven. Standby for retrosequence times.
00 00 07 00
John Glenn: Roger. Ready to copy.
00 00 07 08
CAPCOM: Roger. 1B, 00 17 50.
John Glenn: Roger. 1 Bravo is 00 plus 17 plus 50.
00 00 07 14
CAPCOM: End of orbit, 01 28 54.
00 00 07 19
John Glenn: Roger, 01 plus 28 plus 54.
00 00 07 22
CAPCOM: Roger, end of mission is 04 32 47.
00 00 07 28
John Glenn: Roger. 04 plus 32 plus 47. Do I have okay for resetting clock? Over.
00 00 07 36
CAPCOM: 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?
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00 00 07 45
John Glenn: Roger. As soon as we get done with this transmission. I understand am I cleared to control systems check.
00 00 07 51
John Glenn: Roger. Starting controls check.
00 00 08 01
John Glenn: Starting controls check.
00 00 08 09
CAPCOM: Your attitudes look okay here.
00 00 08 32
CAPCOM: Friendship Seven. Anything to report on control systems checks.
00 00 08 34
John Glenn: Not yet, everything appears to be going okay. Am now on the yaw part of the check. Going off right on schedule.
00 00 08 42
CAPCOM: Very good, very good.
00 00 08 50
John Glenn: Control so far is excellent. Very good, no problems at all so far on control.
00 00 08 55
CAPCOM: Roger.
00 00 09 01
John Glenn: Aux Damp pulls it right in every time. No problems.
00 00 09 04
CAPCOM: Very good.
00 00 09 24
CAPCOM: Friendship Seven, Bermuda. Do you still read?
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00 00 09 26
John Glenn: Roger, Bermuda, still read you loud and clear. Still completing control check. Having no problem at all so far.
00 00 09 32
CAPCOM: Roger, you're still loud and clear.
00 00 09 35
John Glenn: Roger.
00 00 09 46
John Glenn: 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. …
00 00 09 58
CAPCOM: On UHF, if you read, go to HF.
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John Glenn: Roger. Going.
00 00 10 24
CAPCOM: Friendship Seven, Bermuda CapCom on HF.
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John Glenn: Hello, Hello, Bermuda. Receive you loud and clear; how me?
00 00 10 38
CAPCOM: Friendship Seven, Friendship Seven, Bermuda CapCom on HF.
00 00 10 40
John Glenn: Hello, Bermuda, Hello, Bermuda CapCom. Friendship Seven reads you loud and clear. Hello, Bermuda, Friendship Seven. How me?
00 00 10 53
CAPCOM: Friendship Seven, this Bermuda CapCom on HF.
00 00 10 56
John Glenn: Hello, Bermuda CapCom, this is Friendship Seven. Read you loud and clear; how me?

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