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00 04 31 06
John Glenn: California Cap Com, Friendship Seven. Over.
00 04 31 09
Comm Tech: Seven, this is California Com Tech, California Com Tech. How do you read? Over.
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John Glenn: This is Friendship Seven. Loud and clear. How me? Over.
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Comm Tech: Roger, Friendship Seven, this is California Com Tech. Reading you loud and clear on UHF.
00 04 31 21
John Glenn: Roger, this is Friendship Seven. Let me give you my time, my capsule elapsed time is 04 plus 31 plus 35 on my mark. 2, 3, 4, MARK. Will you relay that immediately to Cape? I think we're several seconds off. Over.
00 04 31 40
CAPCOM: Roger, we have you on that. Will give you the count down for retro-sequenee time, John. You're looking good.
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John Glenn: Roger. We only have 50 seconds to retrograde. Over.
00 04 31 50
CAPCOM: John, I'll give a mark. 45, MARK.
00 04 31 53
John Glenn: Roger.
00 04 31 57
John Glenn: I'm on ASCS and backing it up manual. Over.
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CAPCOM: Roger, John.
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John Glenn: My fuel is 39 [percent]
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CAPCOM: Thirty seconds, John.
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John Glenn: Roger. Retro-warning is on.
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CAPCOM: Good.
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CAPCOM: John, leave your retropack on through your pass over Texas. Do you read?
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John Glenn: Roger.
00 04 32 23
CAPCOM: 15 seconds to sequence.
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John Glenn: Roger.
00 04 32 28
CAPCOM: 10.
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CAPCOM: 5. 4, 3, 2, 1, MARK
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John Glenn: Roger, retro sequence is green.
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CAPCOM: You have a green. You look good on attitude.
00 04 32 44
John Glenn: Retro attitude is green.
00 04 32 50
CAPCOM: Just past 20.
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John Glenn: Say again.
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CAPCOM: Seconds.
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John Glenn: Roger.
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CAPCOM: 5, 4, 3, 2, 1, fire.
00 04 33 09
John Glenn: Roger, retros are firing.
00 04 33 12
CAPCOM: Sure, they be.
00 04 33 15
John Glenn: Are they ever. It feels like I'm going back toward Hawaii.
00 04 33 19
CAPCOM: Don't do that, you want to go to the East Coast.
00 04 33 23
John Glenn: Roger. Fire retro light is green.
00 04 33 26
CAPCOM: All three here.
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John Glenn: Roger.
00 04 33 32
John Glenn: Roger, retros have stopped. A hundred. …
00 04 33 37
CAPCOM: Keep your retro pack on until you pass Texas.
00 04 33 40
John Glenn: That's affirmative.
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CAPCOM: Check.
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CAPCOM: Pretty good looking flight from what all we've seen.
00 04 33 51
John Glenn: Roger, everything went pretty good except for all this ASCS problem.
00 04 33 55
CAPCOM: It looked like your attitude held pretty well. Did you have to back it up at all?
00 04 33 57
John Glenn: Oh, yes, quite a bit. Yeah, I had a lot of trouble with it.
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CAPCOM: Good enough for Government work from down here.
00 04 34 06
John Glenn: Yes, sir, it looks good, Wally. We'll see you back East.
00 04 34 08
CAPCOM: Rog.
00 04 34 09
John Glenn: All right, boy.
00 04 34 11
John Glenn: Fire Retro is green.
00 04 34 14
CAPCOM: Roger.
00 04 34 15
John Glenn: Jettison retro is red. I'm holding onto it.
00 04 34 18
CAPCOM: Good head.
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John Glenn: I'll tell you, there is no doubt about it when the retros fire.
00 04 34 32
CAPCOM: Gathered that from your comments.
00 04 34 39
John Glenn: Everything is looking good, I'll give you a fast readout here. Fuel is 29-27 [percent]. The cabin pressure holding 5.5, cabin air is 88 [degrees], relative humidity is 33 [percent]; coolant quantity, 58 [percent], temperature is 71 [degrees], suit temperature is 71 [degrees], suit pressure is 5.8, steam temperature is 53 [degrees] in the suit, oxygen is, primary 60 [percent], 89 [percent] on secondary.
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CAPCOM: Looks pretty good on this end. How did the attitude seem to hold? Did you have any diversions in yaw at all?
00 04 35 21
John Glenn: Negative, very close. I backed it up and worked right along with the ASCS and it looked like it held right on the money.
00 04 35 27
CAPCOM: Roger, we didn't notice any particular disparity here.
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John Glenn: Roger, good. Do you have a time for going to Jettison Retro? Over.
00 04 35 33
CAPCOM: Texas will give you that message. Over.
00 04 35 35
John Glenn: Roger.
00 04 35 39
John Glenn: This is Friendship Seven, cutting yaw on automatic and I'll control that manually; it keeps banging in and out of orientation.
00 04 35 46
CAPCOM: Roger, Friendship Seven.
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John Glenn: Hello, Texas. Friendship Seven. Over.
00 04 35 56
CAPCOM: Friendship Seven, Cal Cap Com. Do you read?
00 04 35 58
John Glenn: Roger.
00 04 35 59
CAPCOM: Consideration about leaving retropack on, they will inform you over Texas.
00 04 36 03
John Glenn: Roger
00 04 36 05
John Glenn: Roger, over the Coast.
00 04 36 07
CAPCOM: Roger, clear blue here.
00 04 36 09
John Glenn: Yes, sir

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