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Scott Carpenter
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The balloon is out. I don't see any reason for not leaving it on through the dark side, and I just saw a particle going by at about 2 or 3 feet per second.
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Roger, understand. According to flight plan, you're supposed to go to FBW about now, and he says you're on auto mode and I wondered if you plan to go through with this. Over.
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Scott Carpenter
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That is negative. I think that the fact that I'm low on fuel dictates that I stay on auto as long as the fuel consumption on automatic is not excessive. Over.
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Scott Carpenter
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I now have the wide, blue horizon band. It looks to be, at this time Capsule elapsed 02 0700, to be about the diameter underneath the sun. It seems to be the same thickness underneath the sun as the sun's diameter. North and south it becomes less distinct and lighter. It extends up farther from the horizon.
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Roger. Loud and clear. We have had transmitter trouble on your previous run. We just got a message from the Cape . . . to conserve fuel. I monitored part of your transmission to Zanzibar and understand . . . the situation.
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Do you have retrosequence times for 2 Delta, 2 Echo and Golf?
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Roger, Aurora Seven, I read you loud and clear. Do you have any comments for the . . . Ocean?
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Scott Carpenter
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That is Roger. I believe we may have some automatic mode difficulty. Let me cheek fly-by-wire a minute.
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Scott Carpenter
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And that is not correct either. The gyros are . . . are okay; but on ASCS standby. It may be an orientation problem. I'll orient visually and . . . see if that will help out the ASCS problem.
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Aurora Seven from Indian Cap Com. Your blood pressure on your . . . fairly high and you are supposed to, if possible, give a blood pressure over Indian Ocean Ship.
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Say again, Aurora.
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Aurora Seven, this is Indian Cap Com. We have lost telemetry contact. How do you read me? Over.
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. . . report to Cape you have checked fly-by-wire and all thrusters are okay. Is there anything else?
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Scott Carpenter
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That is negative. Except this problem with steam vent temperature. I'm going—I'll open the visor a minute; that'll cool—it seems cooler with the visor open.
Spoken on May 24, 1962, 2:53 p.m. UTC (62 years, 5 months ago). Link to this transcript range is: Tweet
