Spacelog Mercury 4

Roger. I'm in 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.

Hunt Club, this is Liberty Bell 7. My antenna should be up.

This is Hunt Club 1…your antenna is erected.

Ah, roger.

OK, give me how much longer it'll be before you get here.

This is Hunt Club 1, we are in orbit now at this time, around the capsule.

Roger, give me about another 5 minutes here, to mark these switch positions here, before I give you a call to come in and hook on. Are you ready to come in and hook on anytime?

Hunt Club 1, roger we are ready anytime you are.

OK, give me about another 3 or 4 minutes here to take these switch positions, then I'll be ready for you.

1, wilco.

Hey Hunt Clubs, Card File, Card File 9, I'll stand by to escort you back as soon as you lift out. I keep another aircraft at least 2,000 feet.

Ah, Bell 7 this is Hunt Club 1.

Go, go ahead Hunt Club 1.

Roger, this is 1, observe something, possibly the canister in the water along side capsule. Will we be interfering with any TM if we come down and take a look at it?

Negative, not at all. I'm just going to put the rest of this stuff on tape and then I'll be ready for you, in just about 2 more minutes, I would say.

1 roger.

Liberty Bell 7, Cap Com at the Cape on a test count. Over.

Liberty Bell 7, Cape Cap Com on a test count. Over.

Any Hunt Club, this is 9 Card File.