Spacelog Mercury 7

I have gotten badly behind in the flight plan now.

Okay, evaluating capsule stability at this time. The capsule is most stable.

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.

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.

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.

I don't need to exercise. I really don't feel I need the exercise. I would get too warm.

We'll be getting to Muchea shortly.

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.

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.

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.

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.

The reticle now extincts at about 5.6.

Hello, Muchea Cap Com. Aurora Seven. Loud and clear. How me?

Read you loud and clear also. What's your status?

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.

Roger What's it running now?

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.

Roger: is the modulation pretty good?

Very good.

Roger

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.

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.

Roger. I was unsuccessful last pass.

Okay, I'm going to send you a Z cal at this time.

Roger

Mark!

Z cal is coming off.

Roger.

On with R cal.

Roger.

Blood pressure stop.

Blood pressure stop. Okay, we're going to oscillate R cal a couple of times here in attempt to reset our temperature problem.

Roger.