Spacelog Mercury 6

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.

Roger. Friendship Seven.

We have you about 14 [degrees].

This is Friendship Seven. I have no problem at all controlling on the horizon. Over.

Roger, understand you have no problem at all controlling with the horizon.

That's affirmative.

This is Friendship Seven.

Friendship Seven, I read you.

Friendship Seven, Friendship Seven, this is ATS Cap Com. Over.

Hello, ATS Cap Com. Loud and clear; how me?

Roger, Friendship Seven. You are loud and clear, also.

This is Friendship Seven. My troubles in yaw appear to have largely reversed.

Friendship Seven, we just lost. …

Roger. Troubles appear to have reversed. Over.

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.

Roger, no right yaw, low thrust. Over.

Roger. This is Friendship Seven. Starting 180° yaw right. Over.

Roger. Starting 180° yaw light. Standing by, go ahead.

MARK 50° .

This is Friendship Seven. Say again.

My mark was on 50 degrees.

Roger.

MARK, a hundred.

Roger.

This is Friendship Seven. Have yawed 165 [degrees], holding orbit attitude in roll and pitch. Over.

Roger, I confirm, confirm your values. Over.

Roger. Friendship Seven.

This is Friendship Seven, holding 180° in yaw. Over.

Roger, holding 180° in yaw.

This is Friendship Seven.

Go ahead, Friendship Seven.

This is Friendship Seven. I like this attitude very much, so you can see where you're going. Over.

Roger, say you liked your attitude? Over.

Say again, please. Over.

Friendship Seven, this is ATS Cap Com, suggest you. … Over.

This is Friendship Seven. I have a loose bolt floating around inside the periscope.

Did not read, did not read. Say again, say again.

This is Friendship Seven, yawing back to orbit attitude. Over.

Roger, coming back to orbit attitude. Over.

Friendship Seven, this is Kano Cap Com, standing by.

Hello, Kano. Roger. Hear you loud and clear.

Friendship Seven, this is Kano. Any time you're ready, we'd like your status report. We hear you loud and clear, also.

Roger, Kano. This is Friendship Seven. I am presently returning to orbit attitude from 180° yaw check. Over.

Roger, Friendship Seven. We marked that your part of the transmission pretty clearly over ATS, and understand you like the old attitude.

Negative, I like the forward-facing attitude much better. Like,. …

But, how is your status, and your station report?

This is Friendship Seven. My status is good. Control fuel is 76-100 [percent]; oxygen, 68-100 [percent]; amps, 25. Over.

Roger, Friendship Seven. We are monitoring your inverters. Your 150-volt inverter 200°, your 250, 180°-180°.

Roger. Friendship Seven.

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.

Roger. Friendship Seven.

This is Friendship Seven, back in orbit attitude. Over.

Roger, understand back in orbit attitude.

This is Friendship Seven. That's affirm.

This is Friendship Seven. I now have control in low thrust to the left. I do not have control in low right thrust. Over.

Roger. Confirm you have control in low thrust to the left, but no control in low thrust to right.

That is affirmative. Friendship Seven.

We will inform MCC. Have you any other comments or queries?

Negative. Friendship Seven. I'm in orbit attitude. I'll try and go back on ASCS and see if it works. Over.

Roger. Will stand by.

Roger.

This is Friendship Seven. The capsule appears. …

Friendship Seven, your last transmission was interrupted.

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.

Standby.

Our signal shows you are sitting at zero in yaw.

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.