- 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?
- John Glenn
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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. …
- John Glenn
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Roger. Exhaust temperature 47 [degrees].
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Correction, Roger, blood pressure, 47 [degrees] on steam temp, blood pressure on.
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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.
- CAPCOM
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Roger, Friendship Seven. Roll is off by 20° to the right; yaw looks pretty good. Hawaii. Over.
- CAPCOM
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Friendship Seven, Hawaii Cap Com. MCC confirms that they are GO at the present time for third orbit.
- John Glenn
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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.
- Comm Tech
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Friendship Seven, Friendship Seven, this is California Com Tech, California Com Tech. Do you read? Over.
- Comm Tech
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Friendship Seven, Friendship Seven, this is California Com Tech, California Com Tech. Do you read? Over.
- Comm Tech
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Friendship Seven, Friendship Seven, this is California Com Tech, California Com Tech. Do you read? Over.
- Comm Tech
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Friendship Seven, Friendship Seven, this is California Com Tech, California Com Tech. Do you read? Over.
- John Glenn
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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.
- CAPCOM
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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.
- John Glenn
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Roger. I'll go back into orbit attitude, drifting toward it at present time. Do you have TM solid now? Over.
- John Glenn
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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.
- CAPCOM
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You understand that your capsule elapsed time is running about a second slow compared to GET.
- CAPCOM
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You have your end-of-orbit time, and that has not changed and I believe you have Area Golf also.
- CAPCOM
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That is correct. You can correct your Area Golf by subtracting one second and subtract one second from Hotel.
- John Glenn
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Roger. Understand for my retrosequence for end-of-mission is 04 plus 32 plus 39. Is that affirm?
Spoken on Feb. 20, 1962, 5:41 p.m. UTC (62 years, 10 months ago). Link to this transcript range is: Tweet