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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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Roger.
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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, 5:55 p.m. UTC (62 years, 8 months ago). Link to this transcript range is: Tweet