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Comm Tech: Cape Com Tech. Do you read? Over.
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John Glenn: Roger, Cape Com Tech. Friendship Seven. Over.
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John Glenn: Hello, Cape Com Tech. Friendship Seven. Over.
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Comm Tech: Friendship Seven, this is Cape Com Tech, Cape Com Tech. Do you read? Over.
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John Glenn: Roger, Cape Com Tech. Friendship Seven.
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John Glenn: Hello, Cape Com Tech. Friendship Seven. Over.
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Comm Tech: Friendship Seven, this is Canaveral Com Tech. How do you copy? Over.
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John Glenn: Friendship Seven to Canaveral. Read you loud and clear. How me? Over.
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Comm Tech: Friendship Seven, Canaveral Com Tech. Read you loud and clear. Standby for Cap Com. Over.
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John Glenn: Roger.
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CAPCOM: Friendship Seven, Cap Com. Would you give us the difficulty you've been having in yaw in ASCS? Over.
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John Glenn: 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.
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CAPCOM: Roger. Understand. Do you have a retrofire time for 2 Bravo and 2 Charlie?
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John Glenn: This is Friendship Seven. Negative.
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CAPCOM: OK, 2 Bravo, 01 50 00; 2 Charlie, 02 05 59. Over.
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John Glenn: 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?
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CAPCOM: That is affirmative. Standby one, please.
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John Glenn: 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.
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CAPCOM: Roger, Seven, we concur here. Recommending you remain fly-by-wire.
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John Glenn: Roger, remaining fly-by-wire.
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CAPCOM: Seven, this is Cape. The President will be talking to you and while he is talking I'll be sending Z and R cal.
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John Glenn: Ah—President.
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CAPCOM: Go ahead, Mr. President.
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John Glenn: This is Friendship Seven, standing by.
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CAPCOM: Roger, Seven. Having a little difficulty. Start off with your 30 minute report.
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John Glenn: 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.
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CAPCOM: Roger.
John Glenn: 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.
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CAPCOM: Roger, still reading you.
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John Glenn: Roger. Are we in communication yet? Over.
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CAPCOM: Say again, Seven.
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John Glenn: Roger. I'll be out of communication fairly soon. I thought if the other call was in, I would stop the check. Over.
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CAPCOM: Not as yet, we'll get you next time.
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John Glenn: 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.
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CAPCOM: Roger, Seven, we have all that. Looks like you're in good shape. Remain on fly-by-wire for the moment.
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John Glenn: Roger. Friendship Seven.
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CAPCOM: Friendship Seven, this is Bermuda Cap Com.
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John Glenn: Go ahead, Bermuda.
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CAPCOM: Roger, we read you 5 by 5.
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CAPCOM: Seven, this is Cape. Go to Bermuda now.
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John Glenn: Roger. This is Friendship Seven. Go ahead, Bermuda.
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CAPCOM: Roger, Friendship Seven. Your oculogyric test is due in a minute and 30 seconds.
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John Glenn: Roger. This is Friendship Seven. I am controlling fly-by-wire, present time. I have no left yaw low thrust. Over.
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CAPCOM: Roger, we understand all of your reports.
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John Glenn: Roger.
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CAPCOM: Friendship Seven. Bermuda.
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John Glenn: Go ahead, Bermuda. Friendship Seven.
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CAPCOM: Have you started your oculogyric test yet?
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John Glenn: Negative, not yet. Just getting set at the present time.
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CAPCOM: Friendship Seven, have you started your test yet?
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John Glenn: This Friendship Seven. That's affirmative, starting now.
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CAPCOM: Roger.
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John Glenn: This is Friendship Seven. I can get no, no results from that at all.
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John Glenn: Hello, Bermuda Cap Com. Friendship Seven. Over.
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CAPCOM: Friendship Seven.
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John Glenn: This is Friendship Seven. Oculo check being completed. Got no effects.
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CAPCOM: … Com. Go ahead.
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John Glenn: Bermuda Cap Com, Friendship Seven. I get no results from oculo check.
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CAPCOM: Cap Com. If you read, go ahead,
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John Glenn: Bermuda, Friendship Seven. I get no results from oculo check. Over.
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CAPCOM: Friendship Seven, Bermuda Cap Com on HF.
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John Glenn: Bermuda, this is Friendship Seven. Do you receive me now? Over.
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CAPCOM: Friendship Seven, Bermuda Cap Com. How do you read?
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John Glenn: Hello, Bermuda Cap Com. Friendship Seven, HF. Do you receive me now? Over.
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CAPCOM: On HF. What are the results of the oculogyric test, please?
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John Glenn: Results negative. Get no effect at all, no effect at all. Over.
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CAPCOM: Roger. Understand no effects from oculogyric. Thank you.
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John Glenn: That's affirmative.
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CAPCOM: Friendship Seven, Bermuda Cap Com. Do you read?
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John Glenn: Roger, Bermuda. Loud and clear; how me?
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CAPCOM: Roger. We still are reading you loud and clear.
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John Glenn: Roger. Friendship Seven getting ready for 1 plus 44 check.
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John Glenn: This is Friendship Seven broadcasting blind to Mercury Network on from just off the east coast over middle Atlantic, check completed at 15.
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CAPCOM: … testing on HF GMT 16 31 59 MARK. I read the capsule weak, but readable. Cape, out.
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CAPCOM: Friendship Seven, this is Bermuda Cap Com on HF. We did not read the capsule. GMT 16 32 15.
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CAPCOM: 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.
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John Glenn: 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.
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CAPCOM: Friendship Seven, … We do not read you, do not read you. Over.
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CAPCOM: Friendship Seven, this is Kano. At GMT 16 33 00. We do not. … This is Kano. Out.
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Comm Tech: Friendship Seven, Friendship Seven, this is CYI Com Tech. Over.
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John Glenn: Hello, Canary. Friendship Seven. Receive you loud and a little garbled. Do you receive me? Over.
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Comm Tech: Friendship Seven, Friendship Seven, this is CYI Com Tech. Over.
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John Glenn: Hello, Canary, Friendship Seven. I read you loud and clear. How me? Over.
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Comm Tech: Friendship Seven, Friendship Seven, this is CYI Com Tech. Over.
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John Glenn: Hello, CYI Com Tech. Friendship Seven. How do you read me? Over.
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Comm Tech: Friendship Seven, Friendship Seven, this is CYI, CYI Com Tech. Do you read? Over.
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John Glenn: Roger. This is Friendship Seven, CYI. I read you loud and clear. Over.
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Comm Tech: Friendship Seven, Friendship Seven, this is CYI Com Tech, CYI Com Tech. Do you read? Over.
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John Glenn: Hello, CYI Com Tech. Roger, read you loud and clear.
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Comm Tech: Friendship Seven, this is CYI Com Tech. Read you loud and clear also, on UHF, on UHF. Standby.
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John Glenn: Roger. Friendship Seven.
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CAPCOM: Friendship Seven, Friendship Seven, Friendship Seven, this is Canary Cap Com. How do you read? Over.
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John Glenn: Hello, Canary Cap Com. Friendship Seven. I read you loud and clear. How me?
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CAPCOM: 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.
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John Glenn: This is Friendship Seven. I did not read you clear. I read you loud but very garbled. Over.
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CAPCOM: 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.
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John Glenn: This is Friendship Seven. I do not think they were from my control jets, negative. Over.
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CAPCOM: Roger, I understand.
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CAPCOM: Friendship Seven, Friendship Seven, this is Canary Cap Com. Please complete your status report.
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John Glenn: 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.
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CAPCOM: Understand your auto fuel is 80 [percent], your manual fuel is 100 [percent], Main O₂ is 69 [percent], secondary O₂ is 100 [percent]. Over.
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John Glenn: Roger. This is Friendship Seven.
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CAPCOM: Friendship Seven, would you take a deep breath?
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John Glenn: Roger. Friendship Seven. Deep breath.
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CAPCOM: That's good.
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John Glenn: This is Friendship Seven. Have Cape Verde Islands in sight to my left. Over.
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CAPCOM: Roger, I understand.
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CAPCOM: Friendship Seven, your medical status is excellent.
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John Glenn: Roger. Friendship Seven.
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John Glenn: 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.
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CAPCOM: Roger, I understand
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CAPCOM: Friendship Seven, are you going through your day horizon check?
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John Glenn: This is Friendship Seven. Say again.
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CAPCOM: Are you going through the day horizon check?
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John Glenn: This is Friendship Seven. Negative, not at present time. I am going to start into a yaw right very shortly. Over.
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CAPCOM: Roger, I understand.
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John Glenn: This is Friendship Seven. Correction: will do day horizon check now.
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CAPCOM: Roger. Standing by.
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John Glenn: Friendship Seven, coming up to 14°.
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CAPCOM: When are you coming up?
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CAPCOM: … coming up. …
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John Glenn: Say again. You're very garbled. This is Friendship Seven.
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CAPCOM: Roger. We have you at 3° on the ground on TM readouts.
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John Glenn: Roger. Friendship Seven.
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CAPCOM: We have you about 14 [degrees].
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John Glenn: This is Friendship Seven. I have no problem at all controlling on the horizon. Over.
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CAPCOM: Roger, understand you have no problem at all controlling with the horizon.
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John Glenn: That's affirmative.
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John Glenn: This is Friendship Seven.
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CAPCOM: Friendship Seven, I read you.
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CAPCOM: Friendship Seven, Friendship Seven, this is ATS Cap Com. Over.
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John Glenn: Hello, ATS Cap Com. Loud and clear; how me?
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CAPCOM: Roger, Friendship Seven. You are loud and clear, also.
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John Glenn: This is Friendship Seven. My troubles in yaw appear to have largely reversed.
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CAPCOM: Friendship Seven, we just lost. …
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CAPCOM: Roger. Troubles appear to have reversed. Over.
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John Glenn: That is affirmative. At one time, I had no left low thrust in yaw, now that one is working, and I now have no low right thrust in yaw. Over.
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CAPCOM: Roger, no right yaw, low thrust. Over.
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John Glenn: Roger. This is Friendship Seven. Starting 180° yaw right. Over.
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CAPCOM: Roger. Starting 180° yaw light. Standing by, go ahead.
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CAPCOM: MARK 50° .
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John Glenn: This is Friendship Seven. Say again.
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CAPCOM: My mark was on 50 degrees.
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John Glenn: Roger.
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CAPCOM: MARK, a hundred.
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John Glenn: Roger.
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John Glenn: This is Friendship Seven. Have yawed 165 [degrees], holding orbit attitude in roll and pitch. Over.
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CAPCOM: Roger, I confirm, confirm your values. Over.
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John Glenn: Roger. Friendship Seven.
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John Glenn: This is Friendship Seven, holding 180° in yaw. Over.
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CAPCOM: Roger, holding 180° in yaw.
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John Glenn: This is Friendship Seven.
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CAPCOM: Go ahead, Friendship Seven.
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John Glenn: This is Friendship Seven. I like this attitude very much, so you can see where you're going. Over.
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CAPCOM: Roger, say you liked your attitude? Over.
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John Glenn: Say again, please. Over.
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CAPCOM: Friendship Seven, this is ATS Cap Com, suggest you. … Over.
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John Glenn: This is Friendship Seven. I have a loose bolt floating around inside the periscope.
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CAPCOM: Did not read, did not read. Say again, say again.
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John Glenn: This is Friendship Seven, yawing back to orbit attitude. Over.
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CAPCOM: Roger, coming back to orbit attitude. Over.
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CAPCOM: Friendship Seven, this is Kano Cap Com, standing by.
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John Glenn: Hello, Kano. Roger. Hear you loud and clear.
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CAPCOM: Friendship Seven, this is Kano. Any time you're ready, we'd like your status report. We hear you loud and clear, also.
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John Glenn: Roger, Kano. This is Friendship Seven. I am presently returning to orbit attitude from 180° yaw check. Over.
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CAPCOM: Roger, Friendship Seven. We marked that your part of the transmission pretty clearly over ATS, and understand you like the old attitude.
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John Glenn: Negative, I like the forward-facing attitude much better. Like,. …
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CAPCOM: But, how is your status, and your station report?
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John Glenn: This is Friendship Seven. My status is good. Control fuel is 76-100 [percent]; oxygen, 68-100 [percent]; amps, 25. Over.
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CAPCOM: Roger, Friendship Seven. We are monitoring your inverters. Your 150-volt inverter 200°, your 250, 180°-180°.
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John Glenn: Roger. Friendship Seven.
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CAPCOM: Friendship Seven, we have telemetry solid and check all your systems out okay. We will remind you to start pre-darkside check list as soon as you lose contact with us.
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John Glenn: Roger. Friendship Seven.
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John Glenn: This is Friendship Seven, back in orbit attitude. Over.
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CAPCOM: Roger, understand back in orbit attitude.
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John Glenn: This is Friendship Seven. That's affirm.
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John Glenn: This is Friendship Seven. I now have control in low thrust to the left. I do not have control in low right thrust. Over.
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CAPCOM: Roger. Confirm you have control in low thrust to the left, but no control in low thrust to right.
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John Glenn: That is affirmative. Friendship Seven.
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CAPCOM: We will inform MCC. Have you any other comments or queries?
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John Glenn: Negative. Friendship Seven. I'm in orbit attitude. I'll try and go back on ASCS and see if it works. Over.
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CAPCOM: Roger. Will stand by.
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John Glenn: Roger.
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John Glenn: This is Friendship Seven. The capsule appears. …
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CAPCOM: Friendship Seven, your last transmission was interrupted.
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John Glenn: This is Friendship Seven. The capsule appears to be holding in ASCS okay, but I believe we are off in yaw. Do you confirm? Over.
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CAPCOM: Standby.
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CAPCOM: Our signal shows you are sitting at zero in yaw.
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John Glenn: This is Friendship Seven. I'm going to depart from flight plan for a moment and try and work this out a little better here, we are drifting in yaw. I am cutting automatic yaw off. And, and will control manually in yaw temporarily. Over.
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CAPCOM: Roger, we still confirm you are holding in yaw, at, as last TM check.
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CAPCOM: Friendship Seven, this is Kano Cap Com. I do not think I can read you, handing over to Zanzibar.
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John Glenn: Roger, this is Friendship Seven.
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Comm Tech: Friendship Seven, Friendship Seven this is Zanzibar Com Tech, transmitting on HF UHF. Do you read? Over.
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John Glenn: Roger, Zanzibar. Friendship Seven.
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Comm Tech: Friendship Seven, Friendship Seven, this is Zanzibar Com Tech, transmitting on HF UHF. DO you read? Over.
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John Glenn: Roger Zanzibar. Read you loud and clear; how me? Over.
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John Glenn: Zanzibar Com Tech, this is Friendship Seven. Over.
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John Glenn: Zanzibar Com Tech.
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Comm Tech: Friendship Seven, this is Zanzibar Com Tech transmitting on HF UHF. Do you read? Over.
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John Glenn: Roger, Zanzibar. Friendship Seven. Hear you loud and clear; how me?

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