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John Glenn
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This is Friendship Seven Can see El Centre and the Imperial Valley down there; Salton Sea very clear.
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John Glenn
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There is quite a bit of cloud cover down in this area. I can, right on track, I can only see certain areas. I can see quite a bit on up to the north, however.
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CAPCOM
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This is Texas Cap Com, Friendship Seven. We are recommending that you leave the retropackage on through the entire reentry. This means that you will have to override the 0.05g switch which is expected to occur at 04 43 53. This also means that you will have to manually retract the scope. Do you read?
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CAPCOM
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We are recommending that the retropackage not, I say again, not be jettisoned. This means that you will have to override the 0.05g switch which is expected to occur at 04 43 53. This is approximately 4¼ minutes from now. This also means that you will have to retract the scope manually. Do you understand?
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John Glenn
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Roger, understand. I will have to make a manual 0.05g entry when it occurs, and bring the scope in manually. Is that affirm?
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CAPCOM
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Friendship Seven, Cape flight will give you the reasons for this action when you are in view.
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John Glenn
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Roger, retracting scope manually.
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CAPCOM
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While you're doing that, we are not sure whether or not your landing bag has deployed. We feel it is possible to reenter with the retropackage on. We see no difficulty at this time in that type of reentry. Over.
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John Glenn
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This is Friendship Seven. I'm on straight manual control at present time. This was, still kicking in and out of orientation mode, mainly in yaw following retorfire, so I am on straight manual now. I'll back it up. …
Spoken on Feb. 20, 1962, 7:28 p.m. UTC (62 years, 6 months ago). Link to this transcript range is: Tweet