Spacelog Mercury 4

…This is Cap Com on HF, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5. How do you read 7?

… Here, do you read me, do you read me on HF? … Going back to U … Boy is that … Retro, I'm back on UHF, and, ah, the jett … the retros have jettisoned. Now I can see the Cape and, oh boy, that is some sight. I can't see too much.

Roger, I am on UHF high, do you read me?

Roger, reading you loud and clear on UHF high, can you confirm retrojettison?

OK, periscope is retracting, going to reentry attitude.

Ah.

Roger, how does it look out the window now?

Ah, the sun is coming in and so all I can see really is just, ah, just darkness. The sky is very black.

Roger, you have some more time to look if you like.

7 from Cap Com, how do you feel up there?

I feel very good, auto fuel is 90, manual is 50.

Roger, 0.05 g in 10.

OK.

OK, everything is very good, ah.

I got 0.05 g and roll rate has started.

Roger.

Got a pitch rate in here, OK, g's are starting to build.

Roger, reading you loud and clear.

Roger, g's are building, we're up to 6.

There's 9.

There's about 10; the handle is out from under it; here I got a little pitch rate coming back down through 7.

Roger, still sound good.

OK, the altimeter is active at 65. There's 60.

Roger, 65,000.

Okay, I'm getting some contrails, evidently shock wave, 50,000 feet; I'm feeling good. I'm very good, everything is fine.

Roger, 50,000.

45,000, do you still read?

Affirmative. Still reading you. You sound good.

OK, 40,000 feet, do you read?

35,000 feet, if you read me.

30,000 feet, everything is good, everything is good.

Bell 7, this is Cap Com. How…

Cape, do you read?

25,000 feet.

Approaching drogue chute attitude.

There's the drogue chute. The periscope has extended.

This is…we have a green drogue here, 7 how do you read?

OK, we're coming down to 15,000 feet, if anyone reads. We're on emergency flow rate, can see out the periscope OK. The drogue chute is good.

Roger, understand drogue is good, the periscope is out.

There's 13,000 feet.

Roger.

There goes the main chute, it's reefed; main chute is good; main chute is good; rate of descent coming down, coming down to – there's 40 feet per second, 30 feet per, 32 feet per second on the main chute, and the landing bag is out green.

Ah, it's better than it was, Chuck.

Hello, does anybody read Liberty Bell, main chute is good, landing bag is on green.

And the landing bag is on green.

Liberty Bell 7, Liberty Bell 7, this is Atlantic Ship Cap Com. Read you loud and clear. Our telemetry confirms your events. Over.

Ah, roger, is anyone reading Liberty Bell 7? Over.

Roger, Liberty Bell 7, reading you loud and clear. This is C 23. Over.

Atlantic Ship Cap Com, this is Liberty Bell 7, how do you read me? Over.

Read you loud and clear. Over. Liberty Bell 7, Liberty Bell 7, this is Atlantic Ship Cap Com. How do you read me? Over.

Atlantic Ship Cap Com, this is Liberty Bell 7, I read you loud and clear. How, me? Over.

Roger, Bell 7, read you loud and clear, your status looks good, your systems look good, we confirm your events. Over.

Ah, roger, and confirm the fuel has dumped. Over.

Roger, confirm again, confirm again, has your auto fuel dumped? Over.