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Scott Carpenter
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I don't know. I'm still warm and still perspiring, but not really uncomfortable. I would like to—I would like to nail this suit temperature problem down. It—for all practical purposes, it's uncontrollable as far as I can see.
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CAPCOM
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Roger. Understand. You might have to wait a few more minutes before this takes effect. You are on No. 6. Is that right?
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CAPCOM
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Roger. Systems reports that your suit temperature has dropped 2 degrees over station, if that's any encouragement to you.
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Scott Carpenter
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Yes, I have. However, the food has crumbled badly; and I hate to open the package any more for fear of getting crumbs all over the capsule. I can verify that eating bite-size food as we packaged for this flight is no problem at all. Even the crumbly foods are eaten with no, with no problem.
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Scott Carpenter
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I had taken four swallows at approximately this time last orbit. As soon as I get the suit temperature pegged a little bit, I'll open the visor and have some more water. Over.
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Scott Carpenter
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One of the labels for a fuse switch has slipped out, and sideways, and has tied the adjoining fuse switch together with it. This happened to emergency-main and reserve-deploy fuse switches.
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Scott Carpenter
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I caged the gyros. They are too critical. I will try and navigate on the dark side without the gyros.
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Scott Carpenter
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The fuse switch should be glued in better so that turning off one fuse does not turn off the adjoining one.
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Scott Carpenter
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Oh yes. There is the xylose pill. It didn't melt. All the rest of the stuff in here did melt.
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Scott Carpenter
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Okay. Xylose pill being consumed at 02 41 35. The rest of the food is pretty much of a mess. Can't stand this cabin temperature.
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This is Canton Cap Com. Read you loud and clear. Could you begin your short report, please?
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Roger, George. My control mode is manual. The gyros are caged, maneuver is off. Fuel is 45 and 64 [percent], a little ahead of schedule. Oxygen reads 82-100 [percent]. Steam vent temperature in the suit is dropping slightly. It's a little below 70 [degrees]. Cabin is 4.6 [psia]. Suit temperature has dropped to about 71 [degrees] now. All the power is good, and here is a blood pressure. Over.
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Scott Carpenter
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I did have the visor open a short time ago for the xylose pill. All of the rest of the food that I have aboard has either crumbled or melted. It's unusable in its present state so I think the xylose pill will constitute my last zero g meal. However, the first one, before the food crumbled, was quite easy. It's no problem to eat this bite-size food—in a weightless state. I also drank some water at that time, which was no problem.
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CAPCOM
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Roger. I take it, from what you said then, that you have confirmed that your faceplate is closed for the decision on the third orbit.
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Scott Carpenter
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That is correct. My faceplate is closed. Also, what is the trend of my cabin pressure on the ground? Over.
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CAPCOM
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We are checking on your request there, Scott. Could you hit that button again? We lost your EKG.
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CAPCOM
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No, we lost the EKG. Possibly you could press on those sensors. Okay, Surgeon informs me that the EKG is now returning. Your other question, cabin pressure is staying at 5.1 [psia] approximately.
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Negative on that. It's gone from 5.8 [psia] at launch to approximately 5.1 [psia] in very, very gradual descending trend.
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CAPCOM
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Do you have any specific comments on your balloon experiments; for example, the best color contrast with the
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Scott Carpenter
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Yes, I would say the day-glow orange is the best.
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Roger. For your information, the second sunrise should be expected in approximately 3 to 4 minutes.
Spoken on May 24, 1962, 3:29 p.m. UTC (62 years, 5 months ago). Link to this transcript range is: Tweet