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00 03 13 17
CAPCOM: Cape recommends that you reenter on ASCS with manual for backup.
00 03 13 22
John Glenn: Roger, this is Friendship Seven. Understand recommend ASCS with manual backup.
00 03 13 29
John Glenn: 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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00 03 14 00
CAPCOM: Roger, understand. I have all that down. Could you give us a blood pressure please?
00 03 14 03
John Glenn: Roger. Standby.
00 03 14 33
CAPCOM: Friendship Seven, can you give me both your primary and secondary oxygen?
00 03 14 38
John Glenn: Roger, primary oxygen is 62 [percent], secondary is 94 [percent].
00 03 14 45
CAPCOM: Roger.
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00 03 15 18
John Glenn: This is Friendship Seven. I'm letting it drift a little bit to the right here to look up north.
00 03 15 30
CAPCOM: Friendship Seven, Bermuda Cap Com.
00 03 15 32
John Glenn: Go ahead Bermuda.
00 03 15 34
CAPCOM: Your fans inverter temperature is 205 [degrees] and your ASCS temperature is 195 [degrees].
00 03 15 44
John Glenn: Roger, sounds real good, Gus, fine.
00 03 15 47
CAPCOM: You're in good shape.
00 03 15 48
John Glenn: Roger.
00 03 16 18
CAPCOM: Friendship Seven, you want to go to HF now?
00 03 16 22
John Glenn: Roger, Friendship Seven. Going to HF.
00 03 16 37
CAPCOM: Friendship Seven, Bermuda Cap Com. How do you read on HF?
00 03 16 41
John Glenn: Bermuda, Friendship Seven. Loud and clear; how me?
00 03 16 44
CAPCOM: You're weak but readable, John.
00 03 16 48
John Glenn: Roger.
00 03 17 08
CAPCOM: Friendship Seven, Bermuda we have lost TM contact.
00 03 17 11
John Glenn: Roger, understand LOS.
00 03 17 43
John Glenn: This is Friendship Seven. I've drifted around almost to the 180° point again.
00 03 18 02
CAPCOM: Friendship Seven, Bermuda Cap Com. Are you still in contact?
00 03 18 05
John Glenn: 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.
00 03 18 18
CAPCOM: Friendship Seven, Bermuda Cap Com. We do not read you.
00 03 18 22
John Glenn: Roger, Bermuda.
00 03 20 28
Comm Tech: Friendship Seven, Friendship Seven, this is CYI Com Tech, CYI Com Tech. Do you read? Over.
00 03 20 34
John Glenn: Hello, Canary Com Tech. On HF; how do you receive me? Loud and clear from you. Over.
00 03 20 41
Comm Tech: Friendship Seven, this is CYI Com Tech. Do you read? Over.
00 03 20 46
John Glenn: Roger, Canary.
00 03 20 49
Comm Tech: Rog, Roger. Read you 5 by, read you 5 by, here in the Canaries. Over.
00 03 20 54
John Glenn: Roger, Friendship Seven. I read you loud and clear on HF, also.
00 03 21 01
CAPCOM: Friendship Seven, Friendship Seven, this is Canary Cap Com. I read you loud and clear.
00 03 21 07
John Glenn: Roger, Canary. Loud and clear here also.
00 03 21 13
CAPCOM: Would you give me a brief station report? Over.
00 03 21 16
John Glenn: This is Friendship Seven. Fuel is 62-54. [percent]. Oxygen is 62-94, [percent], amps 24. Over.
00 03 21 30
CAPCOM: Understand that auto fuel is 63 [percent] and manual fuel is 94 [percent]. Over.
00 03 21 36
John Glenn: Negative. Manual fuel is 54 [percent], 54 [percent]. Over.
00 03 21 41
CAPCOM: 54 [percent]. Over.
00 03 21 49
John Glenn: Canary, did you get manual fuel at 54 [percent] fiver four? Over.
00 03 21 54
CAPCOM: Roger. Manual fuel at 54 [percent].
00 03 22 02
CAPCOM: Friendship Seven, this is Canary Cap Com. How do you feel?
00 03 22 06
John Glenn: This is Friendship Seven. I feel fine; no effects whatsoever, none.
00 03 22 12
CAPCOM: Friendship Seven. Are you still seeing the particles around your capsule?
00 03 22 17
John Glenn: 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.
00 03 22 42
CAPCOM: Say again, Friendship Seven.
00 03 22 44
John Glenn: The particles I saw were mainly at sunrise each time around. Over.
00 03 22 51
CAPCOM: I understand. What control mode are you on?

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