Spacelog Mercury 8

Cape Cap Com, Sigma Seven. Over.

Sigma Seven, Sigma Seven. Cape Cap Com.

Roger, Deke. I'm on push-to-talk at this time. How do you read? Over.

Roger. Reading you 5 by.

Roger, this is UHF-hi.

Roger.

Going to VOX.

Cape Cap Com, Sigma Seven. On VOX

Roger. You're good on VOX.

Okay. I'm sending you one. Control mode is ASCS; auto retro; gyros normal; maneuver off. All systems are green. I'll give you a readout on the domes here, if you'd like.

Cape Cap Com. Sigma Seven.

Sigma Seven. Cape Cap Com.

Did you read the report?

I read the report. Awaiting the dome temperature particularly suit.

Okay. Suit dome is 70 (degrees). Cabin dome is 45 (degrees). That blasted cabin heat exchanger is 40 (degrees). Suit inlet is 62 (degrees), and I'm very comfortable.

Excellent.

Are you ready for me to make a power down yet?

Very good. Would you give us all three inverter temperatures at your leisure.

Okay. I'll give you those, and then I'll power down.

Roger.

250 is 143 (degrees). It's gone up about 2 degrees in the last 40 minutes. The 150 is about 105 (degrees). The standby is about, ha, 110 (degrees) I'd say. A little warmer.

Roger.

And the retro heaters, the retropackage temperature is about 74 (degrees), and it's stayed there almost all this time.

Roger. That's very good.

Okay. I'm gonna go into a power down.

Roger. Understand.

I'll give a readout on how I do it. Selecting fly-by-wire. Going to gyros caged. Judging gyros caged. I'm going to 0.

Roger.

Going to ASCS bus, turning it off, and that's 0 volts. And am I clear to kill my beacon?

Affirmative.

Okay. Beacon off. The rates are . . ..

Hit your blood pressure stop button, we're still getting BP.

Yeah, instead of getting asked for it, I'm gotta asked to stop it now.

That's a welcome changeover.

There go the beacons off.

Roger.

I caught your Z Cal. Okay, the rates are nice and zeroing. I'm going back to normal position instead of fly-by-wire.

Roger.

Gyros are caged, and the VOX is off. I'm going to select reentry for the attitude, so I got that set up for the powering-up procedure.

Okay, I've got fly-by-wire low, and the normal on the ASCS mode, auto, gyros caged, maneuver is still off. And the bea—and the beacons are off. Here she's cruising along very happily.

Very good. Are you ready for a (contingency recovery area) 3-C retro (time)?

Say again.

Are you ready for your 3-C retro time?

I'm sorry. You're very garbled.

Are you ready for your 3 Charlie retro time?

Okay. I'll try to get it from you, Deke. I—you're garbled, say them very slowly.

03 39 36.

Okay. You came in loud and clear.

All righty.