Spacelog Mercury 8

03 39 36 for 3 Charlie.

That's affirmative.

Okay.

Let me give you a GMT time hack, see how we are there at this time.

Yeah. That's probably all fouled up. Okay. You give it to me.

On my mark, I'm 15 27 00—MARK.^T

27?

Affirm.

Holy Malone! That's got a, okay, that thing is, really a pile of gabog. I've got 24.

. . ..

Well, let me try that GMT on my back-up clock here. Any time.

Want a mark on the back-up?

Yeah.

Okay. 03 12 25 on my mark.—MARK.^T

That was 15 47 30. Is that correct?

I gave you a mark on CET, CET.

Oh, oh, oh. I'm sorry, I was looking at my back-up.

Okay.

Let's try for CET again at 50 (seconds).

Roger, in 3 seconds. MARK.^T

Okay. I am a second and a half fast.

Very good.

GMT—of 28 coming up, actually, I've passed it.

Give me 28 15.

MARK.^T

Very good, I'm about 3 seconds slow on the back-up. That's the best one.

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Say again.

Roger. Did you see Echo?

Negative. I could not get to it. I was trying to conserve some more fuel there, and couldn't get pitched up in the right attitude for it.

Roger. How about Mercury?

Mercury? Loud and clear. I used Mercury and the moon for my night yaw check.

Roger.

No, this thing has, ah, practically no rates indicated, Deke, but I'm now, I'd say rolled over, oh, probably 30 degrees to the left.—Pretty close to pitch attitude, and of course it's pretty hard to tell what yaw is under these conditions.

Roger. Eat and drink—you're also fading.

Okay. I think I'll try some of that.

Roger. We'll leave you alone for awhile.

Okay. That might be fun, too. I'm now going to go ahead and do an orientation test.

. . ..

Okay. Thank you.

Okay. On the orientation test.—I touched the manual lever; I touched the clock, a rivet above the clock at about 10 30 just between the clock face and the yaw indicator. On the emergency rate lever, I touched it right on the button.

You're coming in garbled. You must have your mouth full

No. I'm just, ha ha, I'm talking about my orientation test.

Roger.

Okay. We finally got the right scale for this.—I've got to go to VOX record. Got the right scale for the dosimeter—and it is reading—about, less than 0.1, exactly 0.04. I am now putting the dosimeter back on the hatch—which is the lowest scale reading.

I'm back on VOX transmit now. Do you read, Deke? I've ended up with a beautiful 90 degree roll to the left. Boy, what a nice eight-point roll this is. Coming up for HF reception. Going to transmit HF, VOX off.

Sigma Seven. Cape Cap Com. Do you read? We are approaching LOS.

This is Sigma Seven broadcasting on HF. Deke, how do you read this now?

It should be noted that the ammeter is reading 12 amps as advertised—apparently, somebody is getting to me with a R Cal on the cabin 0₂. The ammeter is just about exactly on 12 amps.

There is a slight rate in yaw about ½ degree per second, it's almost impossible to take out without having to fly it out. This does look like an appropriate time to get ready for an HF check. Turning the VOX to push-to-talk.