- John Glenn
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This is Friendship Seven. I'm trying to get some pictures of these particles that are outside here. Over.
- CAPCOM
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Friendship Seven, this is Canton. We also have no indication that your landing bag might be deployed. Over.
- CAPCOM
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Negative, we had a request to monitor this and to ask you if you heard any flapping, when you had high capsule rates. …
- John Glenn
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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.
- John Glenn
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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.
- CAPCOM
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Roger, Friendship Seven. Will be losing contact any minute now, you have reentry checks to make and approximately 10 minutes, until California contact. Over.
- CAPCOM
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Friendship Seven, this is Hawaii Cap Com, I read you loud and clear. What is your status report? Over.
- CAPCOM
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Roger, Friendship Seven. The first part of your transmission was broken up; could you say again, fuel?
- CAPCOM
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Roger. Read 62-74 [percent], Friendship Seven. Cape would like to know if you have made the visual check on the gyros yet?
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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.
- John Glenn
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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.
- CAPCOM
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Roger, Friendship Seven. Understand you still have a 20° error in your attitude indication after caging the gyros.
- John Glenn
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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.
- CAPCOM
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Friendship Seven, could you give us a readout on all three axes; we'd like to compare ground readouts.
- John Glenn
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Roger, Friendship Seven. Roll indicates 19 [degrees] right, yaw, 2 [degrees] left, pitch —22 [degrees]. Over.
- John Glenn
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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. …
Spoken on Feb. 20, 1962, 5:37 p.m. UTC (62 years, 7 months ago). Link to this transcript range is: Tweet