Spacelog Mercury 6

This is Friendship Seven. Back on ASCS.

Friendship Seven, Guaymas. You were on ASCS when it started drifting out. Over.

That is affirmative.

This is Friendship Seven. Now on fly-by-wire to hold orbit attitude.

This is Friendship Seven. I have the land in sight out the window. Controlling manually, on fly-by-wire.

Friendship Seven. Is the ASCS OK now? Over.

I'll switch back on to it now and see.

This is Friendship Seven. Negative. Seems to, well, standby one.

This is Friendship Seven. Affirmative. Seems to be controlling now. There may be some drift to the right, however. Over.

Roger.

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.

It's drifting again in yaw. Over. And once again pulls through.

Cape Com Tech. Do you read? Over.

Roger, Cape Com Tech. Friendship Seven. Over.

Hello, Cape Com Tech. Friendship Seven. Over.

Friendship Seven, this is Cape Com Tech, Cape Com Tech. Do you read? Over.

Roger, Cape Com Tech. Friendship Seven.

Hello, Cape Com Tech. Friendship Seven. Over.

Friendship Seven, this is Canaveral Com Tech. How do you copy? Over.

Friendship Seven to Canaveral. Read you loud and clear. How me? Over.

Friendship Seven, Canaveral Com Tech. Read you loud and clear. Standby for Cap Com. Over.

Roger.

Friendship Seven, Cap Com. Would you give us the difficulty you've been having in yaw in ASCS? Over.

Roger. This is Friendship Seven. I'm going on fly-by-wire so I can control more accurately. It just started as I got to Guaymas, and appears to be it drifts off in yaw, to the right at about 1° per second. It will go over to an attitude of about 20°, and hold at that and when it hits about a 20° point it then goes into orientation mode and comes back to zero, and it was cycling back and forth in that mode. I am on fly-by-wire now and controlling manually. Over.

Roger. Understand. Do you have a retrofire time for 2 Bravo and 2 Charlie?

This is Friendship Seven. Negative.

OK, 2 Bravo, 01 50 00; 2 Charlie, 02 05 59. Over.

Ah, this is Friendship Seven. Understand 1 Bravo is 01 plus 50 plus 00; 2 Charlie, correction 2 Bravo is 01 50 00, 2 Charlie is 02 plus 05 plus 59. Is that affirm?

That is affirmative. Standby one, please.

This is Friendship Seven. What appears to have happened is, I believe, I have no one pound thrust in left yaw. So it drifts over out of limits and then hits it with the high thrust. Over.

Roger, Seven, we concur here. Recommending you remain fly-by-wire.

Roger, remaining fly-by-wire.

Seven, this is Cape. The President will be talking to you and while he is talking I'll be sending Z and R cal.

Ah—President.

Go ahead, Mr. President.

This is Friendship Seven, standing by.

Roger, Seven. Having a little difficulty. Start off with your 30 minute report.

Roger. This is Friendship Seven, controlling manually on fly-by-wire, having no trouble controlling. Very smooth and easy; controls very nicely. Fuses are still the same on the left panel. Squib is, Squib is armed. Auto Retrojettison is off. ASCS is fly-by-wire, auto, gyro normal. All fuel, all “T” handles are in, Retro Delay is normal. I have beautiful view out the window of the coast at present time. Just departing. Can see the, way down across Florida. Cannot quite see the Cape yet.

Roger.

Continuing with the report. No sequence panel lights showing. Only abnormal position. Landing bag is off. The EPI is indicating okay. Control fuel is 80 [percent] auto, 100 [percent] manual. Retrograde time set in is 04 plus 32 plus 28. Over.

Roger, still reading you.

Roger. Are we in communication yet? Over.

Say again, Seven.

Roger. I'll be out of communication fairly soon. I thought if the other call was in, I would stop the check. Over.

Not as yet, we'll get you next time.

Roger. Continuing report. Cabin pressure 5.5 and holding nicely. Cabin air is 95 [degrees]; relative humidity, 20 [percent]; coolant quantity is 67 [percent]; temperature is 67 [degrees] on the suit; 5.8 on the pressure; steam temperature is 50 [degrees] and coming down slowly. Oxygen is 70-100 [percent]; amps, 22. Only really unusual thing so far beside ASCS trouble were the little particles, luminous particles around the capsule, just thousands of them right at sunrise over the Pacific. Over.

Roger, Seven, we have all that. Looks like you're in good shape. Remain on fly-by-wire for the moment.

Roger. Friendship Seven.

Friendship Seven, this is Bermuda Cap Com.

Go ahead, Bermuda.

Roger, we read you 5 by 5.

Seven, this is Cape. Go to Bermuda now.

Roger. This is Friendship Seven. Go ahead, Bermuda.

Roger, Friendship Seven. Your oculogyric test is due in a minute and 30 seconds.

Roger. This is Friendship Seven. I am controlling fly-by-wire, present time. I have no left yaw low thrust. Over.

Roger, we understand all of your reports.

Roger.

Friendship Seven. Bermuda.

Go ahead, Bermuda. Friendship Seven.

Have you started your oculogyric test yet?

Negative, not yet. Just getting set at the present time.

Friendship Seven, have you started your test yet?

This Friendship Seven. That's affirmative, starting now.

Roger.

This is Friendship Seven. I can get no, no results from that at all.

Hello, Bermuda Cap Com. Friendship Seven. Over.

Friendship Seven.

This is Friendship Seven. Oculo check being completed. Got no effects.

… Com. Go ahead.

Bermuda Cap Com, Friendship Seven. I get no results from oculo check.

Cap Com. If you read, go ahead,

Bermuda, Friendship Seven. I get no results from oculo check. Over.

Friendship Seven, Bermuda Cap Com on HF.

Bermuda, this is Friendship Seven. Do you receive me now? Over.

Friendship Seven, Bermuda Cap Com. How do you read?

Hello, Bermuda Cap Com. Friendship Seven, HF. Do you receive me now? Over.

On HF. What are the results of the oculogyric test, please?

Results negative. Get no effect at all, no effect at all. Over.

Roger. Understand no effects from oculogyric. Thank you.

That's affirmative.

Friendship Seven, Bermuda Cap Com. Do you read?

Roger, Bermuda. Loud and clear; how me?

Roger. We still are reading you loud and clear.

Roger. Friendship Seven getting ready for 1 plus 44 check.

This is Friendship Seven broadcasting blind to Mercury Network on from just off the east coast over middle Atlantic, check completed at 15.

… testing on HF GMT 16 31 59 MARK. I read the capsule weak, but readable. Cape, out.

Friendship Seven, this is Bermuda Cap Com on HF. We did not read the capsule. GMT 16 32 15.

Friendship Seven, Friendship Seven, this is CYI. The time now 16 32 26. We are reading you loud and clear; we are reading you loud and clear. CYI.

This is Friendship Seven on UHF. As I went over recovery area that time, I could see a wake, what appeared to be a long wake in the water. I imagine that's the ships in our recovery area.

Friendship Seven, … We do not read you, do not read you. Over.

Friendship Seven, this is Kano. At GMT 16 33 00. We do not. … This is Kano. Out.

Friendship Seven, Friendship Seven, this is CYI Com Tech. Over.

Hello, Canary. Friendship Seven. Receive you loud and a little garbled. Do you receive me? Over.

Friendship Seven, Friendship Seven, this is CYI Com Tech. Over.

Hello, Canary, Friendship Seven. I read you loud and clear. How me? Over.

Friendship Seven, Friendship Seven, this is CYI Com Tech. Over.

Hello, CYI Com Tech. Friendship Seven. How do you read me? Over.

Friendship Seven, Friendship Seven, this is CYI, CYI Com Tech. Do you read? Over.

Roger. This is Friendship Seven, CYI. I read you loud and clear. Over.

Friendship Seven, Friendship Seven, this is CYI Com Tech, CYI Com Tech. Do you read? Over.

Hello, CYI Com Tech. Roger, read you loud and clear.

Friendship Seven, this is CYI Com Tech. Read you loud and clear also, on UHF, on UHF. Standby.

Roger. Friendship Seven.

Friendship Seven, Friendship Seven, Friendship Seven, this is Canary Cap Com. How do you read? Over.

Hello, Canary Cap Com. Friendship Seven. I read you loud and clear. How me?

I read you loud and clear. I am instructed to ask you to correlate the actions of the particles surrounding your spacecraft with the actions of your control jets. Do you read? Over.

This is Friendship Seven. I did not read you clear. I read you loud but very garbled. Over.

Roger. Cap asks you to correlate the actions of the particles surrounding the vehicle with the reaction of one of your control jets. Do you understand? Over.

This is Friendship Seven. I do not think they were from my control jets, negative. Over.

Roger, I understand.

Friendship Seven, Friendship Seven, this is Canary Cap Com. Please complete your status report.

This is Friendship Seven. My status is excellent. I have control of capsule ,m fly-by-wire at present time. Control fuel is 80-100 [percent]; oxygen, 69-100 [percent]; amps, 22. Over.

Understand your auto fuel is 80 [percent], your manual fuel is 100 [percent], Main O₂ is 69 [percent], secondary O₂ is 100 [percent]. Over.

Roger. This is Friendship Seven.

Friendship Seven, would you take a deep breath?

Roger. Friendship Seven. Deep breath.

That's good.

This is Friendship Seven. Have Cape Verde Islands in sight to my left. Over.

Roger, I understand.

Friendship Seven, your medical status is excellent.

Roger. Friendship Seven.

This is Friendship Seven. The sun coming through the window is very warm where it hits the suit. I get quite a bit of heat from it.

Roger, I understand

Friendship Seven, are you going through your day horizon check?

This is Friendship Seven. Say again.

Are you going through the day horizon check?

This is Friendship Seven. Negative, not at present time. I am going to start into a yaw right very shortly. Over.

Roger, I understand.

This is Friendship Seven. Correction: will do day horizon check now.

Roger. Standing by.

Friendship Seven, coming up to 14°.

When are you coming up?

… coming up. …

Say again. You're very garbled. This is Friendship Seven.

Roger. We have you at 3° on the ground on TM readouts.