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John Glenn
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Okay. If that's what they recommend, we'll go ahead and try it. Are you ready for it now?
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John Glenn
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Roger. Negative, in automatic position did not get a light and I'm back in off position now. Over.
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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?
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John Glenn
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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.
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CAPCOM
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Did you understand the Cape would like you to change your clock by one second, to 04 32 37?
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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.
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John Glenn
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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.
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GET on my mark will be 04 plus 2. …
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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.
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Friendship Seven, Hawaii Cap Com. You were breaking up at the last, I could not read your time hack.
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John Glenn
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Roger, this is Friendship Seven. I'll give you another time hack at 04 plus 29 plus 10. Standby, 7, 8, 9, MARK.
Spoken on Feb. 20, 1962, 7:13 p.m. UTC (62 years, 9 months ago). Link to this transcript range is: Tweet