Spacelog Mercury 6

5, 4, 3, 2, 1, fire.

Roger, retros are firing.

Sure, they be.

Are they ever. It feels like I'm going back toward Hawaii.

Don't do that, you want to go to the East Coast.

Roger. Fire retro light is green.

All three here.

Roger.

Roger, retros have stopped. A hundred. …

Keep your retro pack on until you pass Texas.

That's affirmative.

Check.

Pretty good looking flight from what all we've seen.

Roger, everything went pretty good except for all this ASCS problem.

It looked like your attitude held pretty well. Did you have to back it up at all?

Oh, yes, quite a bit. Yeah, I had a lot of trouble with it.

Good enough for Government work from down here.

Yes, sir, it looks good, Wally. We'll see you back East.

Rog.

All right, boy.

Fire Retro is green.

Roger.

Jettison retro is red. I'm holding onto it.

Good head.

I'll tell you, there is no doubt about it when the retros fire.

Gathered that from your comments.

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.

Looks pretty good on this end. How did the attitude seem to hold? Did you have any diversions in yaw at all?

Negative, very close. I backed it up and worked right along with the ASCS and it looked like it held right on the money.

Roger, we didn't notice any particular disparity here.

Roger, good. Do you have a time for going to Jettison Retro? Over.

Texas will give you that message. Over.

Roger.

This is Friendship Seven, cutting yaw on automatic and I'll control that manually; it keeps banging in and out of orientation.

Roger, Friendship Seven.

Hello, Texas. Friendship Seven. Over.

Friendship Seven, Cal Cap Com. Do you read?

Roger.

Consideration about leaving retropack on, they will inform you over Texas.

Roger

Roger, over the Coast.

Roger, clear blue here.

Yes, sir