Mercury 7 transcript starting at 03 11 52 on Spacelog

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03 11 52
Scott Carpenter: My control mode is now manual; gyros are caged, and I will allow the capsule to drift for a little while.
03 12 04
CAPCOM: Roger, and John suggests you try to look back, towards the darkness, at sunrise to see those particles.
03 12 14
Scott Carpenter: Toward the darkness.
03 12 16
CAPCOM: Roger. At sunrise, try to look toward the darkness.
03 12 18
Scott Carpenter: Okay, I have done that, and—and—tell him no joy.
03 12 24
CAPCOM: Roger.
03 12 36
CAPCOM: Aurora Seven, are you in drifting flight?
03 12 38
Scott Carpenter: That is Roger.
03 12 40
CAPCOM: Roger.
03 12 46
Scott Carpenter: I am looking down almost vertically. It's possible to distinguish, I believe, four separate cloud layers.
03 12 57
CAPCOM: Understand.
03 13 07
Scott Carpenter: Balloon—I'll maneuver enough to get the balloon out in trail so I can photograph its departure.
03 13 35
CAPCOM: Roger.
03 13 55
Scott Carpenter: I, incidently, have those little particles visible in the periscope at this time.
03 14 05
CAPCOM: Roger. Understand the periscope.
03 14 22
CAPCOM: Aurora Seven, Cap Com.
03 14 24
Scott Carpenter: Roger. Go ahead.
03 14 26
CAPCOM: We're still fairly happy with your fuel state now. Don't let—we'd like for you not to let either get down below 40 percent.
03 14 33
Scott Carpenter: Roger. I'll try. I have balloon jettison on and off, and I can't get rid of it.
03 14 41
CAPCOM: Understand that you can't get rid of the balloon.
03 14 43
Scott Carpenter: That's right. It will not jettison.
03 14 48
CAPCOM: Okay.
03 15 19
CAPCOM: Aurora seven, Cap Com.
03 15 21
Scott Carpenter: Go ahead, Cap Com.
03 15 23
CAPCOM: Give us your blood pressure and fuel reading.
03 15 26
Scott Carpenter: Okay. Fuel is 45-42 [percent]. Blood pressure on the air.
03 15 32
CAPCOM: Rog.
03 15 58
Scott Carpenter: I have the particles visible still. They're streaming aft, but in an arc of maybe a 120 or 130 degrees.
03 16 16
CAPCOM: Aurora Seven, Cap Com. Say again.
03 16 19
Scott Carpenter: Roger, I have these particles drifting aft again, but they do not parallel the line to the balloon exactly. They drift aft within an arc of maybe 120 to 130 degrees.
03 16 36
CAPCOM: Roger.
03 16 41
CAPCOM: Aurora Seven, Cap Com. Can you give us a comment on the zero g experiment?
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03 16 53
Scott Carpenter: Roger. At this moment, the fluid is all gathered around the standpipe; the standpipe appears to be full and the fluid outside the standpipe is about halfway up. There is a rather large meniscus. I'd say about 60° meniscus.
03 17 27
CAPCOM: Aurora Seven, Cap Com. Repeat as much of your last message as you can.
03 17 32
Scott Carpenter: Roger. The standpipe is full of the fluid. The fluid is halfway up the outside of the standpipe—a rather large meniscus, on angle of about 60 degrees. Over.
03 20 31
CAPCOM: Aurora Seven, Aurora Seven, this is Canary Cap Com on HF. Do you read? Over.
03 21 00
Scott Carpenter: Hello, hello, Canary Cap Com, Aurora Seven. Reading you loud and clear; HF. Transmitting HF. How do you read? Over.
03 21 32
CAPCOM: Aurora Seven, this is Canary Cap Com on HF. Do you read? Over.
03 21 40
Scott Carpenter: Roger, Canary Cap Com. Reading you loud and clear; HF. How me? Over.
03 22 04
Scott Carpenter: These pictures of the—small groups of closely knit clouds are south of Canary, third orbit.
03 22 48
Scott Carpenter: This must be crossing [Intertropical Convergence Zone] (ITCZ). I have never seen weather quite like this.
03 22 54
CAPCOM: This is Canary Cap Com on HF. Do you receive? Over.
03 23 36
CAPCOM: Aurora Seven, this is Canary Cap Com. We had no transmissions from you. This is Canary Islands, signing out.
03 24 33
Scott Carpenter: I have the Voasmeter out at this time.
03 24 53
Scott Carpenter: Hello.
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03 25 01
Scott Carpenter: Hello, Canary Cap Com, Aurora Seven. Reading you loud and clear. How me?
03 25 08
CAPCOM: Aurora Seven, this is Canary Cap Com. Do you read? Over.
03 25 12
Scott Carpenter: Go ahead, Canary. Reading you loud and clear.
03 25 18
Scott Carpenter: I am going—I am in the record only position now. I think the best answer to the autokinesis—is that there is none. I noticed none—and I tend to aline the horizontal with my head—it—a horizontal line under zero g is a line parallel to the line drawn between your eyes. I don't get autokinesis. I don't get—now wait a minute, maybe I'm beginning to.
03 26 40
Scott Carpenter: I should remark that at 3 26 33, I have.in the sky, at any time, 10 particles. They no doubt appear to glow to me. They appeared to be little pieces of frost. However. some appear to be way, way far away. There are two—that look like they might be a 100 yards away. I haven't operated the thruster not for some time. Here are two in closer. Now a densiometer reading on these that are in close. Extinct at 5.5, the elapsed time is 3 27 39. I am unable to see any stars in the black sky at this time. However, these little snowflakes are clearly visible.

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