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John Glenn
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Some of them almost float with me. Most of them appear to be moving at about 3 to 5 miles an hour away from me. I'm going just a little faster then they are. Over.
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CAPCOM
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Friendship Seven, Guaymas Cap Com. We have a scope retract indication on ground. Believe it's ground failure. Over.
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John Glenn
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This is Friendship Seven. Yaw is drifting out of orbit attitude and will bring it back in. Over.
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CAPCOM
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Friendship Seven, Guaymas. I said the, I have an indication of scope retract. Your say your scope is out, though? Over.
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John Glenn
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This is Friendship Seven. Yaw drifted out of limits about 20 degrees to the right. I'm bringing it back in manually at present time. Over.
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John Glenn
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This is Friendship Seven. I have the land in sight out the window. Controlling manually, on fly-by-wire.
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Friendship Seven. Is the ASCS OK now? Over.
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This is Friendship Seven. Affirmative. Seems to be controlling now. There may be some drift to the right, however. Over.
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John Glenn
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This is Friendship Seven. It drifts about out 20° to the right and then gets a large pulse to kick it back over to the left. It goes in about, the rate runs over to about 3 degrees per second, to the left.
Spoken on Feb. 20, 1962, 4:17 p.m. UTC (62 years, 8 months ago). Link to this transcript range is: Tweet