Spacelog Mercury 6

Roger, Friendship Seven.

I also can see the light on my, on steam from the thruster when I operate it. Over.

Roger, Friendship Seven. Are, are your thrusters working, are all your high thrusters working okay. Over.

This Friendship Seven. Affirmative, operating okay.

This is Friendship Seven. I think my, I can see a little bit of steam spitting against the dark sky here occasionally from my pitch down manual thruster. Over.

Roger.

This is Friendship Seven. All these little particles; there are thousands of them; and they're not coming from the capsule. They're something that's already up there because they're all over the sky. Way out I can see them, as far as I can see in each direction almost.

Roger, Friendship Seven.

Friendship Seven, this is Canton. Our telemetry here indicates that everything is okay. Over.

Roger, Friendship Seven.

Friendship Seven, this is Canton. Our Aeromed would like to hear any comments you have on weightlessness, nausea, dizziness, taste and smell sensations. Over.

Friendship Seven, I have no sensations at all from weightlessness except very pleasant. No ill effects at all, I'm not sick; feel fine. I have had no, no dizziness: I've run the head checks, the head movements and have no problem with that. I've run the oculogyric check and have no problem with that. I haven't been able to use much of the equipment this orbit, however. I've been mainly concerned with this control problem. Over.

Roger, Friendship Seven. Our fuel quantities here agree with yours. Our 150 fans inverter temperature is 200 [degrees]. The ASCS temperature is 190 [degrees]. Out

Roger, Friendship Seven.

Friendship Seven, this is Canton. Do you have all the retro times that you need? Over.

This is Friendship Seven. I believe so. I have Foxtrot coming up here, I mean Golf coming up, at 03 00 39. Is that affirm?

Standby one.

This is Friendship Seven. I'm trying to get some pictures of these particles that are outside here. Over.

Friendship Seven, that time we have for Golf is 03 00 39. Over.

Roger.

Friendship Seven, this is Canton. We also have no indication that your landing bag might be deployed. Over.

Roger. Did someone report landing bag could be down? Over.

Negative, we had a request to monitor this and to ask you if you heard any flapping, when you had high capsule rates. …

Negative.

… this was. Over.

Well, I think they probably thought these particles I saw might have come from that, but these are, there there are thousands of these things, and they go out for, it looks like miles in each direction from me and they move by here very slowly. I saw them at the same spot on the first orbit. Over.

Roger.

Friendship Seven, what control mode are you in presently?

This is Friendship Seven. I am in manual. While on the dark side, I aligned myself with the horizon, when up to 0 0 0, and caged the gyros and uncaged again. Over.

Roger, Friendship Seven. Will be losing contact any minute now, you have reentry checks to make and approximately 10 minutes, until California contact. Over.

Roger, Friendship Seven.

Friendship Seven, this is Hawaii Com Tech on UHF and HF. How do you read? Over.

Say again, Com Tech, what station?

Friendship Seven, Hawaii Com Tech on UHF and HF. How do you read? Over.

Hello Hawaii. Loud and clear; how me? Over.

Hello Hawaii. Friendship Seven. Loud and clear; how me? Over.

Friendship Seven, this is Hawaii Cap Com, I read you loud and clear. What is your status report? Over.

Roger, Friendship Seven, ah.

He has contact, we're putting air-to-ground on.

This is Friendship Seven. Fuel 62-74 [percent], oxygen 64-98 [percent], amps 23. Over.

Roger, Friendship Seven. The first part of your transmission was broken up; could you say again, fuel?

Roger, fuel 62-74 [percent]. Over.

Roger. Read 62-74 [percent], Friendship Seven. Cape would like to know if you have made the visual check on the gyros yet?

This is affirmative. During the dark side I went to 0 0 0 as best I could and caged and uncaged the gyros. I'm rechecking this at present time. Over.

Roger. I'll stand by until you complete your checks and we'd like to get the results.

Roger, Friendship Seven.

Hawaii, this is Friendship Seven. Are we getting scanner ignore? Over.

There are no ignore indications on the ground as of now, Friendship Seven. Hawaii. Over.

Roger. This is Friendship Seven. When I aligned in, standby one.

This is Friendship Seven. Roll appears to be about 20° off. At present time, I am indicating 20° right roll when I am lined up perfectly with the horizon. Over.

Roger, Friendship Seven. Understand you still have a 20° error in your attitude indication after caging the gyros.

This is Friendship Seven. That's affirmative. It's drifted off again. It was correct at that time; it apparently has drifted off. It's about 20° off in roll.

Friendship Seven, could you give us a readout on all three axes; we'd like to compare ground readouts.

Roger, Friendship Seven. Roll indicates 19 [degrees] right, yaw, 2 [degrees] left, pitch —22 [degrees]. Over.

Roger, Friendship Seven. Read you loud and clear.

Friendship Seven, Hawaii Cap Com. Can you estimate the drift rates you are getting?

This is Friendship Seven. Drift rates are very difficult to pick up for some reason. I have not been able to get real accurate drift rates. I feel that. …

Do you still consider yourself GO for the next orbit?

That is affirmative, I am GO for the next orbit.

Roger, I understand. At present time ground concurs.

Roger.

Could you, could you give me a readout on exhaust temperature, please?

Friendship Seven. Roger. Exhaust temperature, 47 [degrees].

Friendship Seven, Hawaii Cap Com. Could you read exhaust temperature please?

Roger. Exhaust temperature 47 [degrees].

Roger. Understand 47 [degrees].

Surgeon requests a blood pressure readout if convenient at this time.

Roger 47 [degrees].

Correction, Roger, blood pressure, 47 [degrees] on steam temp, blood pressure on.

This is Friendship Seven. I have a pretty good run here on, on yaw check. I believe my yaw is pretty accurate. Roll is off by about 20° to the right at present time.

Roger, Friendship Seven. Roll is off by 20° to the right; yaw looks pretty good. Hawaii. Over.

That's affirmative.

Friendship Seven, Hawaii Cap Com. MCC confirms that they are GO at the present time for third orbit.

Roger. Friendship Seven.

Friendship Seven, Hawaii Cap Com. Do you read? Over.

Roger, Hawaii. Loud and clear, how me?

Are you ready to copy?

Friendship Seven. Go ahead.

This is Friendship Seven. I have a better alignment now on the day side, I believe, on these, on the attitude. I will probably cage and uncage gyros again. Over.

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

Roger, California Com Tech. Read you loud and clear. How me? Over.

Hello, California Com Tech. Friendship Seven. How me? Over.

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

Roger, California Com Tech. Friendship Seven. How me? Over.

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

Hello, California Com Tech. Friendship Seven. Loud and clear; how me?

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

Hello, California Com Tech. Friendship Seven. Loud and clear; how me?

Friendship Seven, California Cap Com. Read you loud and clear, John.

Say again. You came in garbled that time. This is Friendship Seven.

Friendship Seven, this is California Cap Com. We read you loud and clear; how me?

Roger. Receiving you much better now, Wally. Very good. Fuel is 62-62 [percent], oxygen 62-95 [percent], amps are 25. All systems are still go. I have had some erratic ASCS operation. I caged and uncaged on the night side and it appears to be working fairly well now although I was drifting again in roll a moment ago. It appears to have corrected itself in roll, however, without me caging again now. Over.

Good, John. We have a go all the way on this. I'd like to give you your inverter temperatures. Your fans are 215 [degrees], your ASCS 198 [degrees]. We're not going to do anything about them. Looks real good.

Okay, fine.

Will you give me your attitudes and we'll check those with ground.

Roger. I'll go back into orbit attitude, drifting toward it at present time. Do you have TM solid now? Over.

Good here.

Roger. Roll is 5 [degrees] left, yaw 3 [degrees] right, pitch — 32 [degrees], right now.

Roger, have your readings.

John, we check almost right on the button with your attitudes within 2°.

Roger. I appear to have a little bit of drift in the scope yet though.

Roger. You probably don't have a good reference yet, do you?

It's rather, it's more difficult to pick up drift than I thought it would be. Your best drift really is to look out the window and try and get something moving away from you out the window.

Roger, I've got you there.

You understand that your capsule elapsed time is running about a second slow compared to GET.

No, I did not; I was not aware of that on the elapsed time.

Roger. This will affect your sequence time. I'll give you 3 Alpha if you're ready to copy.

Standby.

Roger, ready to copy 3 Alpha.

Roger. 3 Alpha corrected for the second error will be 03 plus 11 plus 26. Over.

Roger, 03 11 26.

You have your end-of-orbit time, and that has not changed and I believe you have Area Golf also.

That's affirmative. I have Golf at 03 plus 00 plus 39 and Hotel at 04 plus 32 plus 40.

That is correct. You can correct your Area Golf by subtracting one second and subtract one second from Hotel.

Roger. Understand for my retrosequence for end-of-mission is 04 plus 32 plus 39. Is that affirm?

Negative. That should be 04 plus 32 plus 38.

Plus 38. Roger. Does Cape want me to set that into clock at present time? Over.

Negative, we have not had those instructions. I'll have Arnie check for you.

Roger. I am still operating on prelaunch time of 04 plus 32 plus 28. Over.

Understand.

This is Friendship Seven. Coming across the Gulf of Lower California at present time in the scope.

Roger.

John, for your information, the clocks will be set over Canaveral.

Roger, understand clocks will be set by command, is that affirm, or do they want…

That is negative. They, on contact with Al, they will have you change the clock.

Roger, understand. Friendship Seven.