Spacelog Mercury 6

Friendship Seven, this is Zanzibar Cap Com. Telemetry indicates all systems go. Medical status go, … reports same, we have a little bit of telemetry drop out. … Standby to pick up IOS in about 3 minutes. Zanzibar Cap Com out.

Roger, Zanzibar.

IOS, this is Friendship Seven. Do you read? Over.

Friendship Seven, Friendship Seven. This is Indian Com Tech on HF UHF. How- do you read? Over.

Indian Com Tech. Read you loud and clear on HF. Over.

Hello Friendship Seven, Friendship Seven. This is Indian Com Tech on HF UHF. How do you read? Over.

Indian Com Tech, Friendship Seven. Loud and clear, how me?

Roger, Friendship Seven, reading you loud and clear—

This is Friendship Seven. Had a beautiful sunset and can see the light way out almost up to the northern horizon.

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Friendship Seven, Friendship Seven,. … Over.

Indian Cap Com, I'm receiving you very garbled. Over.

Roger, … , now. Over.

Friendship Seven, Friendship Seven, this is Indian Cap. Over.

Go ahead Indian Cap Com. I read you fairly good now. Over.

Roger. Proceed with the rest of your status please. Over.

Say again, Indian. Over.

Would you give me your status and consumable readings please? Over.

Roger. This is Friendship Seven. My status is very good. I feel fine. Fuel is 90-98 [percent], oxygen 75-100 [percent], amps, 21 present time, cabin pressure holding at 5.5. Over.

Roger, understand, reading you loud and clear now. Over.

Roger, loud and clear.

This is Friendship Seven. At this, MARK, at this present time, I still have some clouds visible below me, the sunset was beautiful. It went down very rapidly. I still have a brilliant blue band clear across the horizon almost covering my whole window. The redness of the sunset I can still see through some of the clouds way over to the left of my course. Over.

Roger, under. …

The sky above is absolutely black, completely black. I can see stars though up above. I do not have any of the constellations identified as yet. Over.

Roger, understand Friendship Seven.

Friendship Seven. Would you confirm you received retrosequence time 1 Delta from Zanzibar? Over.

This is Friendship Seven. Roger, 1 Delta is 00 50 24.

Roger. I have areas 1 Echo, Foxtrot, and Hotel. Are you prepared to copy? Over.

Standby one.

Roger. Let me know.

All right, go ahead with retrotimes. Over.

Roger. Area 1 Echo is one hour, 15 minutes, 42 seconds. I say again, one hour, 15 minutes, 42 seconds. Over.

Roger. One Echo is 01 plus 15 plus 42.

Roger. Area Foxtrot is one hour, 28 minutes, 50 seconds. I say again, one hour, 28 minutes, 50 seconds.

Roger. Foxtrot is 01 plus 28 plus 50.

That is affirmative. Area Hotel is four hours, 32 minutes, 42 seconds. Four hours, 32 minutes, 42 seconds. Over.

Roger. 04 plus 32 plus 42. Over.

Roger. That is affirmative. Over.

Roger. This is Friendship Seven. I am having no trouble at all seeing the night horizon. I think the moon is probably coming up behind me. Yes, I can see it in the scope back here and it's making a very white light on the clouds below. Over.

Roger, understand.

Friendship Seven, we have launched our flare. You understand it is. … Over.

That is affirmative.

We have been advised that it has been ignited. Do you see anything? Over.

This is Friendship Seven. Negative. I don't have anything in the scope or out the window.

Roger, understand.