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John Glenn
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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.
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CAPCOM
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Roger, Friendship Seven. Roll is off by 20° to the right; yaw looks pretty good. Hawaii. Over.
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CAPCOM
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Friendship Seven, Hawaii Cap Com. MCC confirms that they are GO at the present time for third orbit.
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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.
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Comm Tech
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Friendship Seven, Friendship Seven, this is California Com Tech, California Com Tech. Do you read? Over.
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Comm Tech
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Friendship Seven, Friendship Seven, this is California Com Tech, California Com Tech. Do you read? Over.
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Comm Tech
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Friendship Seven, Friendship Seven, this is California Com Tech, California Com Tech. Do you read? Over.
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Comm Tech
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Friendship Seven, Friendship Seven, this is California Com Tech, California Com Tech. Do you read? Over.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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CAPCOM
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You understand that your capsule elapsed time is running about a second slow compared to GET.
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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.
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CAPCOM
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That is correct. You can correct your Area Golf by subtracting one second and subtract one second from Hotel.
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John Glenn
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Roger. Understand for my retrosequence for end-of-mission is 04 plus 32 plus 39. Is that affirm?
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John Glenn
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This is Friendship Seven. Coming across the Gulf of Lower California at present time in the scope.
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John Glenn
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Roger, Friendship Seven. Cabin temperature is holding steady at about 90 [degrees]. I still have excess cabin water light on and my, I have the cabin water turned almost completely off at present time.
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John Glenn
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Ali right, fine, glad everything is working out. I feel real good, Wally. No problems at all.
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John Glenn
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Roger. This is Friendship Seven. Systems all operating normally. I gave my quantities again. There's no need to waste more time on those. I am pitching down to about 60° to make observation. Over.
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John Glenn
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This is Friendship Seven. Just passed over El Paso in good shape. Could see town through some of the clouds, Over.
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Comm Tech
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Roger, Friendship Seven. This is Canaveral Com Tech. Copy you loud and clear, also. Standby for Cap Com please.
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John Glenn
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Hello, Cap Com. Friendship Seven. Fuel is 62-60 [percent]; oxygen is 62-95 [percent]; amps 23. Over.
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CAPCOM
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Friendship Seven, reading you loud and clear. I'll give you the 3 Bravo Time, 03 22 26. Over.
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CAPCOM
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Roger, Seven. We recommend for the third orbit that you use gyros as you desire either normal or free so that in the event prior to retrofire on the third orbit that the scanners and ASCS do not program properly you may use your gyros in the free position for attitude reference. Over.
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John Glenn
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Roger. This is Friendship Seven. I have a fair, pretty good line-up now on the gyros, I believe. The check that I made on the night side was okay but they drifted off again, apparently rather rapidly in fact. I got another check on it and they seem to have corrected back pretty good now. I did not have to cage them again. Over.
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CAPCOM
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Roger, Seven, we understand. The only problem is that you may not have enough light time prior yo retrofire.
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CAPCOM
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Also, Seven, we recommend that you allow the capsule to drift on manual control in order to conserve fuel. Over.
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John Glenn
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Go ahead, Cape.
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John Glenn
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Roger, this is Friendship Seven. I have the Cape in sight down there. It looks real fine from up here.
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John Glenn
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This is Friendship Seven, Flor-, I can see the whole state of Florida just laid out like on a map. Beautiful.
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John Glenn
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This is Friendship Seven, checking down in Area Hotel on the weather and it looks good down that way. Looks like we'll have no problem on recovery.
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John Glenn
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In fact, I can see clear down, see all the islands clear down that whole chain from up here, … I can see way beyond them and area Hotel looks excellent for recovery.
Spoken on Feb. 20, 1962, 5:47 p.m. UTC (62 years, 7 months ago). Link to this transcript range is: Tweet