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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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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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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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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.
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John Glenn
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This, this operation of ASCS has been very erratic. I have not been able to pin it down to any particular, one particular item. It went off one direction in yaw at one time; it went off the other the next time. I felt for a little while that pitch was drifting. It seemed to have a little stuck thrust in pitch at one time and I have to keep correcting that and that corrected itself and then I was off in roll just after I came off the dark side this time. Over.
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John Glenn
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This is Friendship Seven. I'm letting it drift a little bit to the right here to look up north.
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John Glenn
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Roger, this is Friendship Seven. I'm around at the 180 [degree] point. I'm facing the direction I'm traveling, Gus. Do you still receive? Over.
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Comm Tech
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Friendship Seven, Friendship Seven, this is CYI Com Tech, CYI Com Tech. Do you read? Over.
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John Glenn
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This is Friendship Seven. Fuel is 62-54. [percent]. Oxygen is 62-94, [percent], amps 24. Over.
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John Glenn
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Negative. I don't seem to see them around here on this side. I saw a few, just a few just after I left Canaveral and turned around facing forward. They were coming toward me at that time. I was going, so I know that they were not coming from the capsule at all. I saw the particles in huge quantities at each sunrise so far. Over.
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Friendship Seven, this is Canary Cap Com. The Aeromed wants to talk to you. Over.
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This is Canary surgeon. Are you having any nausea, or have you experienced any nausea at all during the entire flight?
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John Glenn
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This is Friendship Seven. Negative. I have felt perfectly normal during the whole flight. I feel fine. Over.
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The systems on the ground look fairly normal at this time. The temperatures are a little bit on the high side but there's nothing critical showing up. The latest reports show that the inverters are about 200 [degrees] and 210 [degrees]; this does not seem to be critical. They should be holding all this level. Do you understand?
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Friendship Seven, Friendship Seven, this is Atlantic Ship Cap, Com Tech. How do you read? Over.
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Comm Tech
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Friendship Seven, Friendship Seven, this is Atlantic Ship Com Tech. We read you weak but broken, weak but broken.
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CAPCOM
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Friendship Seven, this is ATS Cap Com. How do you read me? Over. And what mode are you on for communications? Over.
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John Glenn
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This is Friendship Seven. I'm on HF at present time, on HF. I'll shift to UHF— is, if you're in solid contact. Over.
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CAPCOM
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Friendship Seven, this is ATS Cap Com. Read only the last part of your transmission. Say again, please.
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John Glenn
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Atlantic Ship, This is Friendship Seven. Wish you would pass to Cape. I let the capsule drift around to the 180° position and I am having to reorient at present time. When Iain all lined with the horizon and the periscope, my attitude indications now are way off. My roll indicates 30° right; my yaw indicates 35 [degrees] right; and pitch indicates plus 40 [degrees]; I repeat plus 40 [degrees] when I am in orbit attitude. Over.
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CAPCOM
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Roger, Friendship Seven. I read you a little broken. You have discrepancies in attitudes of 30° right in roll, 35 [degrees] right in yaw and plus 40 [degrees] in pitch. Confirm, please. Over.
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John Glenn
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That is affirmative. I am realigning the capsule at present time and wilt cage and uncage the gyros before I go on the dark side. Over.
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John Glenn
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This is Friendship Seven. Gyros are back on normal, going back to orbit attitude and will try ASCS. Over.
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Comm Tech
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Friendship Seven, Friendship Seven, this is Zanzibar Com Tech, transmitting on HF UHF. Do you read? Over.
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John Glenn
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Hello, Zanzibar Com Tech. Zanzibar Com Tech, Friendship Seven. Receive you weak but readable. How me? Over.
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Comm Tech
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Friendship Seven, Friendship Seven, this is Zanzibar Com Tech transmitting HF UHF. You're weak and garbled, weak and garbled. Do not copy. Over.
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John Glenn
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Roger. Friendship Seven. I receive you rather garbled, also. My condition is good. Fuel 5, correction, fuel 64-48 [percent]; oxygen 52-92 [percent]. Over.
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CAPCOM
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(ATS) Friendship Seven, this is ATS Cap Com. I'm reading you very clear, very clear. Could you give me the reason for the errors in your attitudes, please?
Spoken on Feb. 20, 1962, 5:48 p.m. UTC (62 years, 7 months ago). Link to this transcript range is: Tweet