Spacelog Mercury 6

Okay. If that's what they recommend, we'll go ahead and try it. Are you ready for it now?

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. We only have 50 seconds to retrograde. Over.

John, I'll give a mark. 45, MARK.

Roger.

I'm on ASCS and backing it up manual. Over.

Roger, John.

My fuel is 39 [percent]

Thirty seconds, John.

Roger. Retro-warning is on.

Good.

John, leave your retropack on through your pass over Texas. Do you read?

Roger.

15 seconds to sequence.

Roger.

10.

5. 4, 3, 2, 1, MARK