- Gus Grissom
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Ah, the sun is coming in and so all I can see really is just, ah, just darkness. The sky is very black.
- Gus Grissom
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There's about 10; the handle is out from under it; here I got a little pitch rate coming back down through 7.
- Gus Grissom
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Okay, I'm getting some contrails, evidently shock wave, 50,000 feet; I'm feeling good. I'm very good, everything is fine.
- Gus Grissom
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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.
- Alan Shepard
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Roger, understand drogue is good, the periscope is out.
- Gus Grissom
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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.
- Unknown
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Ah, it's better than it was, Chuck.
- ATS
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Liberty Bell 7, Liberty Bell 7, this is Atlantic Ship Cap Com. Read you loud and clear. Our telemetry confirms your events. Over.
- ATS
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Read you loud and clear. Over. Liberty Bell 7, Liberty Bell 7, this is Atlantic Ship Cap Com. How do you read me? Over.
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Atlantic Ship Cap Com, this is Liberty Bell 7, I read you loud and clear. How, me? Over.
Spoken on July 21, 1961, 12:31 p.m. UTC (63 years, 4 months ago). Link to this transcript range is: Tweet