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00 02 53 46
CAPCOM: Surgeon requests a blood pressure readout if convenient at this time.
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John Glenn: Roger 47 [degrees].
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John Glenn: Correction, Roger, blood pressure, 47 [degrees] on steam temp, blood pressure on.
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John Glenn: 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: Roger, Friendship Seven. Roll is off by 20° to the right; yaw looks pretty good. Hawaii. Over.
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John Glenn: That's affirmative.
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CAPCOM: Friendship Seven, Hawaii Cap Com. MCC confirms that they are GO at the present time for third orbit.
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John Glenn: Roger. Friendship Seven.
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CAPCOM: Friendship Seven, Hawaii Cap Com. Do you read? Over.
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John Glenn: Roger, Hawaii. Loud and clear, how me?
00 02 56 05
CAPCOM: Are you ready to copy?
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John Glenn: Friendship Seven. Go ahead.
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John Glenn: 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: Friendship Seven, Friendship Seven, this is California Com Tech, California Com Tech. Do you read? Over.
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John Glenn: Roger, California Com Tech. Read you loud and clear. How me? Over.
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John Glenn: Hello, California Com Tech. Friendship Seven. How me? Over.
00 02 57 23
Comm Tech: Friendship Seven, Friendship Seven, this is California Com Tech, California Com Tech. Do you read? Over.
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John Glenn: Roger, California Com Tech. Friendship Seven. How me? Over.
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Comm Tech: Friendship Seven, Friendship Seven, this is California Com Tech, California Com Tech. Do you read? Over.
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John Glenn: Hello, California Com Tech. Friendship Seven. Loud and clear; how me?
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Comm Tech: Friendship Seven, Friendship Seven, this is California Com Tech, California Com Tech. Do you read? Over.
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John Glenn: Hello, California Com Tech. Friendship Seven. Loud and clear; how me?
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CAPCOM: Friendship Seven, California Cap Com. Read you loud and clear, John.
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John Glenn: Say again. You came in garbled that time. This is Friendship Seven.
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CAPCOM: Friendship Seven, this is California Cap Com. We read you loud and clear; how me?
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John Glenn: 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: 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: Okay, fine.
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CAPCOM: Will you give me your attitudes and we'll check those with ground.
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John Glenn: Roger. I'll go back into orbit attitude, drifting toward it at present time. Do you have TM solid now? Over.
00 02 59 42
CAPCOM: Good here.
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John Glenn: Roger. Roll is 5 [degrees] left, yaw 3 [degrees] right, pitch — 32 [degrees], right now.
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CAPCOM: Roger, have your readings.
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CAPCOM: John, we check almost right on the button with your attitudes within 2°.
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John Glenn: Roger. I appear to have a little bit of drift in the scope yet though.
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CAPCOM: Roger. You probably don't have a good reference yet, do you?
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John Glenn: 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: Roger, I've got you there.
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CAPCOM: You understand that your capsule elapsed time is running about a second slow compared to GET.
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John Glenn: No, I did not; I was not aware of that on the elapsed time.
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CAPCOM: Roger. This will affect your sequence time. I'll give you 3 Alpha if you're ready to copy.
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John Glenn: Standby.
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John Glenn: Roger, ready to copy 3 Alpha.
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CAPCOM: Roger. 3 Alpha corrected for the second error will be 03 plus 11 plus 26. Over.
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John Glenn: Roger, 03 11 26.
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CAPCOM: You have your end-of-orbit time, and that has not changed and I believe you have Area Golf also.
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John Glenn: That's affirmative. I have Golf at 03 plus 00 plus 39 and Hotel at 04 plus 32 plus 40.
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CAPCOM: 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: Roger. Understand for my retrosequence for end-of-mission is 04 plus 32 plus 39. Is that affirm?
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CAPCOM: Negative. That should be 04 plus 32 plus 38.
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John Glenn: Plus 38. Roger. Does Cape want me to set that into clock at present time? Over.
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CAPCOM: Negative, we have not had those instructions. I'll have Arnie check for you.
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John Glenn: Roger. I am still operating on prelaunch time of 04 plus 32 plus 28. Over.
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CAPCOM: Understand.
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John Glenn: This is Friendship Seven. Coming across the Gulf of Lower California at present time in the scope.
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CAPCOM: Roger.
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CAPCOM: John, for your information, the clocks will be set over Canaveral.
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John Glenn: Roger, understand clocks will be set by command, is that affirm, or do they want…
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CAPCOM: That is negative. They, on contact with Al, they will have you change the clock.
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John Glenn: Roger, understand. Friendship Seven.
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CAPCOM: For your information your O2 is holding. It seems to be working; it's reading about
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John Glenn: 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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CAPCOM: Roger, it sounds like it's working out all right anyway.
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John Glenn: Roger, it's doing okay. We'll make one more orbit okay.
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CAPCOM: I assume you are still on manual proportional; is that correct?
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John Glenn: That's affirmative, I'm still on manual.
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CAPCOM: Friendship Seven, Guaymas Cap Com reads you loud and clear. Over.
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John Glenn: Roger, Guaymas. Read you loud and clear, also.
00 03 03 54
CAPCOM: John, the Aeromeds are real happy with you; you look real good up there.
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John Glenn: Ali right, fine, glad everything is working out. I feel real good, Wally. No problems at all.
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Comm Tech: Friendship Seven, Friendship Seven, this is Texas Com Tech. Do you read? Over.
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John Glenn: Hello, Texas, this is Friendship Seven. Read you loud and clear. How me? Over.
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Comm Tech: Roger, reading you five square on HF. Let's try UHF. Over.
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John Glenn: This is Friendship Seven, I'm on UHF. Over.
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Comm Tech: Roger, Friendship Seven, Roger. Standby for Cap Com.
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John Glenn: Roger.
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CAPCOM: This is Texas Cap Com, Friendship Seven. Do you read?
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John Glenn: Roger, Texas Cap Com. Loud and clear. How me?
00 03 04 57
CAPCOM: Loud and clear. We have no queries down here. Continue with your observations please.
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John Glenn: 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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CAPCOM: Roger, we confirm down here on the TM. Over.
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John Glenn: Roger.
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John Glenn: 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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John Glenn: Friendship Seven, flying over complete cloud deck at present time.
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John Glenn: I'm pitching down to 60° at present time. Orbit attitude in roll and yaw.
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John Glenn: This is. …

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