Spacelog Mercury 8

Roger. Standby 1 second Deke.

Roger. Made a dosimeter check, and it is still less than the last reading.

Cape Cap Com, Sigma Seven in UHF-hi. Go ahead.

Cape Cap Com, this is Sigma Seven, UHF-hi. Go ahead.

Go ahead, Sigma Seven, this is Cape Cap Com.

Cape Cap Com, Sigma Seven UHF-hi. How do you read? Over.

Roger. I am in drifting mode, everything is working beautifully.

. . .

Say again.

. . .

You are coming in garbled Deke.

Here are your retro times, if you are ready.

Roger. I think I will be through in a second. I will take them.

Roger.

(Recovery area) 4-2 is 05 44 05.

Do that one over again and I will be right on. You're in clear now.

Okay 4-2 is 05 44 05.

Okay. 4-2 is 05 44 05.

Right. (recovery area) 6-1 is 08 51 24.

24.

(Contingency recovery areas) A and B are nominal and I'd like to give you a GMT hack and see what your clock is doing now. Give you one at 16 57 35. MARK.^T

Roger. I'm reading 55 45.

Pretty good.

Let's check the backup clock and we will hack that.

Roger.

Anytime.

For your information, we are going to start calling you Venus. IOS visually sighted you on the last pass.

How about that?

Did you have your steak?

Yeah. Did you?

Yeah. It was okay. Did you eat it?

Would you do me a time hack again on GMT?

Okay, GMT. 16 58 15. MARK.^T

15 okay. I'm 15—that was just about 3 seconds slow on my backup clock.

Very good. Flight would like to talk to you now.

Okay.

Wally, we have some Echo sighting data. You prepared to copy?

Just get my pencil out. Standby. Okay, go Chris.

00 17 30 is contact time for 4 minutes. Azimuth 99.5 (degrees), elevation 90 (degrees). Echo will be in the light, the capsule in the dark.

That should be fun, shouldn't it?

Roger. Been a real good show up there. I think we are proving our point old buddy.

I hope so Chris. I am enjoying it.

Roger.

Sigma Seven . . . standing by.

Roger.

Sigma Seven, Cape Flight.

Okay, Flight.

We are ready to go into fast time if you are.

Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha! That's a good one. Very good.