- CAPCOM
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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.
- Comm Tech
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Friendship Seven, Friendship Seven. This is Indian Com Tech on HF UHF. How do you read? Over.
- Comm Tech
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Friendship Seven, Friendship Seven. This is Indian Com Tech on HF UHF. How- do you read? Over.
- Comm Tech
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Hello Friendship Seven, Friendship Seven. This is Indian Com Tech on HF UHF. How do you read? Over.
- John Glenn
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This is Friendship Seven. Had a beautiful sunset and can see the light way out almost up to the northern horizon.
- John Glenn
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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.
- John Glenn
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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.
- John Glenn
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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.
- CAPCOM
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Friendship Seven. Would you confirm you received retrosequence time 1 Delta from Zanzibar? Over.
- CAPCOM
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Roger. Area 1 Echo is one hour, 15 minutes, 42 seconds. I say again, one hour, 15 minutes, 42 seconds. Over.
- CAPCOM
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Roger. Area Foxtrot is one hour, 28 minutes, 50 seconds. I say again, one hour, 28 minutes, 50 seconds.
- CAPCOM
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That is affirmative. Area Hotel is four hours, 32 minutes, 42 seconds. Four hours, 32 minutes, 42 seconds. Over.
- John Glenn
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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.
- CAPCOM
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Roger, understand.
Expand selection down Contract selection up - John Glenn
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This is Friendship Seven. Negative. I don't have anything in the scope or out the window.
Spoken on Feb. 20, 1962, 3:32 p.m. UTC (62 years, 10 months ago). Link to this transcript range is: Tweet