- John Glenn
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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.
- CAPCOM
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Roger, we have you on that. Will give you the count down for retro-sequenee time, John. You're looking good.
- John Glenn
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Roger, retro sequence is green.
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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.
- CAPCOM
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Looks pretty good on this end. How did the attitude seem to hold? Did you have any diversions in yaw at all?
- John Glenn
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Negative, very close. I backed it up and worked right along with the ASCS and it looked like it held right on the money.
- John Glenn
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This is Friendship Seven, cutting yaw on automatic and I'll control that manually; it keeps banging in and out of orientation.
Spoken on Feb. 20, 1962, 7:20 p.m. UTC (62 years, 10 months ago). Link to this transcript range is: Tweet