Mercury 6 transcript starting at 00 01 28 54 on Spacelog

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00 01 28 54
John Glenn: 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.
00 01 29 05
CAPCOM: Roger.
00 01 29 44
CAPCOM: Friendship Seven, Guaymas Cap Com. We have a scope retract indication on ground. Believe it's ground failure. Over.
00 01 29 52
John Glenn: That is affirmative. The scope is extended. The scope is extended. Over.
00 01 29 57
CAPCOM: Roger.
00 01 30 03
John Glenn: This is Friendship Seven. A lot of cloud cover. I cannot see land yet. Over.
00 01 30 11
John Glenn: This is Friendship Seven. Yaw is drifting out of orbit attitude and will bring it back in. Over.
00 01 30 16
CAPCOM: Roger.
00 01 30 18
CAPCOM: Friendship Seven, Guaymas. I said the, I have an indication of scope retract. Your say your scope is out, though? Over.
00 01 30 26
John Glenn: That is affirmative.
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CAPCOM: Roger.
00 01 30 30
CAPCOM: Friendship Seven, California Cap Com. We have your scope as extended.
00 01 30 34
John Glenn: That is affirmative, Cal, scope is extended.
00 01 30 39
CAPCOM: Roger, we concur here.
00 01 30 41
John Glenn: Roger.
00 01 30 44
John Glenn: 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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CAPCOM: Roger.
00 01 31 03
John Glenn: This is Friendship Seven. Back on ASCS.
00 01 31 15
CAPCOM: Friendship Seven, Guaymas. You were on ASCS when it started drifting out. Over.
00 01 31 19
John Glenn: That is affirmative.
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John Glenn: This is Friendship Seven. Now on fly-by-wire to hold orbit attitude.
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John Glenn: This is Friendship Seven. I have the land in sight out the window. Controlling manually, on fly-by-wire.
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CAPCOM: Friendship Seven. Is the ASCS OK now? Over.
00 01 31 45
John Glenn: I'll switch back on to it now and see.
00 01 32 03
John Glenn: This is Friendship Seven. Negative. Seems to, well, standby one.
00 01 32 15
John Glenn: This is Friendship Seven. Affirmative. Seems to be controlling now. There may be some drift to the right, however. Over.
00 01 32 22
CAPCOM: Roger.
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John Glenn: 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.
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John Glenn: It's drifting again in yaw. Over. And once again pulls through.

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