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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, 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, sounds real good, Gus, fine.
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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.
Spoken on Feb. 20, 1962, 5:58 p.m. UTC (62 years, 7 months ago). Link to this transcript range is: Tweet