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John Glenn
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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
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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
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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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John Glenn
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Hello, Canary. Friendship Seven. Receive you loud and a little garbled. Do you receive me? Over.
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Comm Tech
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Friendship Seven, Friendship Seven, this is CYI Com Tech, CYI Com Tech. Do you read? Over.
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Comm Tech
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Friendship Seven, this is CYI Com Tech. Read you loud and clear also, on UHF, on UHF. Standby.
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CAPCOM
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Friendship Seven, Friendship Seven, Friendship Seven, this is Canary Cap Com. How do you read? Over.
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CAPCOM
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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
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This is Friendship Seven. I did not read you clear. I read you loud but very garbled. Over.
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CAPCOM
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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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CAPCOM
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Friendship Seven, Friendship Seven, this is Canary Cap Com. Please complete your status report.
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John Glenn
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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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Spoken on Feb. 20, 1962, 4:36 p.m. UTC (62 years, 6 months ago). Link to this transcript range is: Tweet