Spacelog Mercury 6

Are you in manual proportional or fly-by-wire now?

I'm in fly-by-wire now.

This is Friendship Seven. I am going to as near orbit attitude as I can establish here on the dark side.

Friendship Seven, Woomera Cap Com. We have contact UHF and TM solid.

Roger, Woomera, loud and clear.

Fuel is 52-45 [percent], oxygen is 60-90 [percent], amps 25. Over.

Hello, Wommera, did you receive? Over.

Roger, Friendship Seven. Surgeon recommends that if you haven't eaten that you eat in the near future.

This is Friendship Seven. Negative. I did not eat on that last round because of, I was busy with the ASCS problem. Over.

Friendship Seven, let's have your fuel readings. Over.

Say again, Woonera.

Let's have your fuel readings. Over.

Roger. Fuel readings are 50-45 [percent], correction 52-45 [percent], over.

Roger,… temperature. Over.

Say again please. Over.

Friendship Seven, you are fading … temperature. Over.

Roger, steam temperature is 49-49 [degrees]. Over.

Roger, Friendship Seven.

This is Friendship Seven. Turning more water on on that one, see if I can cool it down a little more.

This is Friendship Seven. Turned around, yawed 180 [degrees] to see the sunrise here, and also to see these little, these little gadgets here that I don't know what they are.

They do not seem to be coming from the capsule at all. There are too many of them. They're all spread out all over the place; it looks like they're some of them might be miles away.

This is Com Tech, Canton Com Tech. Do you read? Over.

Go ahead, Canton.

Com Tech, Roger, read you loud and clear. Friendship Seven, this is Canton Com Tech, you are weak but readable. Standby for Cap Com.

Roger.

This is Canton Cap Com. Over.

Canton Cap Com, standby I'll give you a report in a minute here. I'm maneuvering back into retro attitude.

Friendship Seven, this is Canton Cap Com. We are not receiving your transmissions and we have not lost your contact. Over.

Roger, Canton. I was busy maneuvering here. I did not give you your report yet, was getting lights set up and trying to stow everything for retro fire. I have 45-45 [percent] on fuel, oxygen is 60-90 [percent], amps is 23. My retrograde time is still set at 04 plus 32 plus 38. Over.

Roger, Friendship Seven. Canton standing by.

Roger.

This is Friendship Seven, Canton. I am getting in in orbit attitude so I can cage and uncage the gyros again. They're off again. Over.

Roger, Friendship Seven.

Yes, when you're ready.

Roger. Negative, in automatic position did not get a light and I'm back in off position now. Over.

Roger, that's fine. In this case, we'll go ahead, and the reentry sequence will be normal.

Roger, reentry sequence will be normal.

Friendship Seven, have you completed your pre-retro check list?

This is Friendship Seven. Going to pre-re, check list at present time.

Roger. I'll standby.

Friendship Seven, Hawaii Cap Com.

Go ahead, Hawaii.

Have you completed pre-retro check list at this time?

That's affirmative. I'm just now completing it.

Roger. Can you comment again on this, the attitude system with respect to the, respect to the visual reference, how you feel about this at this time?

Well, it's into, it's in and out of orientation mode right now and is wasting fuel, in yaw. I may have to cut it in yaw, I don't know. It appears to be correcting, though, at the present time or maybe the scanners are correcting it okay now.

Roger, what mode are you in now?

I'm in ASCS, automatic.

Understand.

Did you understand the Cape would like you to change your clock by one second, to 04 32 37?

Negative. I'll change it right now.

Okay. Time is now 04 32 and 37.

We confirm with TM readout.

Roger.

Everything looks good on the ground. The inverter temperatures are a little high; 225° on the 150, 212° on the 250. Everything else looks pretty good.

Roger.

Surgeon would like to know ff you're still comfortable.

Roger, I'm in very good shape. I'll go through exercise bit in just a minute here, as soon as I get done with check list.

Okay, going through light test. Okay, checks okay.

Okay, 5 minutes to retrograde, light is on.

Rog, 5 minutes to retrograde, light on.

TM is breaking up now. Friendship Seven, would you like a G.m.t. time hack?

Roger, please.

On my mark G.m.t. will be 19 plus 15 plus 45—MARK.

Roger.

GET on my mark will be 04 plus 2. …

Say again capsule elapsed time please. Over.

Give you a new hack. On my mark it will be 04 plus 28 plus 35, six seconds.

Roger. Let me give you a hack and figure a new retrograde time from the Cape. My time from launch will read 04 plus 28 plus 45 on my mark. Standby, 2, 3, 4, MARK.

Friendship Seven, Hawaii Cap Com. You were breaking up at the last, I could not read your time hack.

Roger, this is Friendship Seven. I'll give you another time hack at 04 plus 29 plus 10. Standby, 7, 8, 9, MARK.

Hawaii, did you receive? Over.

Hello Hawaii, did you receive?

Hello California, Friendship Seven. Over.

Hello California Cap Com, Friendship Seven. Over.

Hello California Cap Com. Friendship Seven. Over.

Friendship Seven, this is California Cap Com. Read you loud and clear, how me?

California Cap Com, Friendship Seven, UHF. Do you receive now? Over.

Hello California Cap Com, Friendship Seven, UHF. Over.

Friendship Seven, California Cap Com. How do you read? Over.

This is Friendship Seven. Loud and clear. How me? Over.

Hello California Cap Com, Friendship Seven. Over.