Spacelog Mercury 6

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.

Roger. Exhaust temperature 47 [degrees].

Roger. Understand 47 [degrees].