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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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CAPCOM
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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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CAPCOM
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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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CAPCOM
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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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CAPCOM
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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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CAPCOM
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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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CAPCOM
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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.
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Scott Carpenter
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I seem able to put it at zero rates. All right, I will do that now. At capsule elapsed 02 17 32, I will zero out all rates.
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Scott Carpenter
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That's as close to zero as I can make it. At 02 17 49, my rates are zero and attitudes are zero plus, or at zero, minus 3, minus 48. Let those rest awhile, and I'll see what we can do about suit temperature.
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Scott Carpenter
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Cabin is rising. Suit temperature seems to be rising too. I'm going to let it go out until 02 25 00 to see if this is going to bring it down some.
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Scott Carpenter
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I don't need to exercise. I really don't feel I need the exercise. I would get too warm.
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Scott Carpenter
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Have a slight pitch up rate at this time, at 02 19 13. I'll zero that out, now. Fly-by-wire—have a slight yaw left rate—I'll zero out now. Attitudes at this time are minus 30.
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Scott Carpenter
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Both busses are okay. All—let's see—number two battery is down to 22. One, is 24; three, is 24; standby one and two, are 24; isolated, is 27; main, is 23; main IBU, is 27. Two—two is now up. Main battery number two is up.
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Scott Carpenter
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I am over the dark side now. The moonrise has not occurred and although I still see the lighted area from the setting sun behind us.
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Scott Carpenter
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Now, I do have the haze layer at this time. It seems to be brighter than—it's good to open the cabin, open the visor.
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Scott Carpenter
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Roger. My status is good; control mode is fly-by-wire; gyros normal; maneuver off. Fuel is 45-6-70 [percent], that's 45-70 [percent], and oxygen is 84-100 [percent]. I have only one minor problem, and that is my inability to get the suit steam vent temperature down, Deke.
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Scott Carpenter
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Well, I'm reading 70 [degrees]. I'm really a little at a loss as to how to get it down, my suit—-water valve is set now past the marks. This doesn't seem to being it down, and neither does putting it . . . negative. That's wrong. The cabin was past the marks. The suit temperature is at prelaunch value of about four. I'm going to go to a setting of plus 6 at this time and see if that will bring it down below 70 [degrees]. Over.
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CAPCOM
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Okay. Let me give you a couple of retrotimes here. You have a 2 Dog nominal; Gold is 03 . . . 29; Hotel 04 32 26.
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CAPCOM
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Fine. Roger. Would you try using your mike button once instead of your VOX. See how this comes in.
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Scott Carpenter
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Capsule stability, Deke, is very, very, good. I've noticed that I can put in a 1-degree-per-second rate on the needle just by moving heads and arms,—my head and arms. Over.
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CAPCOM
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Very good, excellent. For your information, there will be no flares at Woomera on this pass, since the cloud cover won't allow you to see them anyway.
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CAPCOM
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Blood pressure stop. Okay, we're going to oscillate R cal a couple of times here in attempt to reset our temperature problem.
Spoken on May 24, 1962, 2:54 p.m. UTC (62 years, 5 months ago). Link to this transcript range is: Tweet