Spacelog Mercury 8

Roger. CET on my mark will be 7 hours, 44 minutes, 30 seconds. MARK.^T

What? Is that right? That's what my clock says.

Right. That was CET. The Cape asked for that. We are showing 4 seconds behind you Wally.

Oh, okay. That was right on. Now what is my roll attitude on your scanner?

Okay. Your roll scanner shows minus—minus—minus 10 (degrees), Wally.

Roger. I concur. Believe I am a little bit steeper than 10 (degrees) left. I'll bring that out with the manual axes and then let her fly it again. And see what she does.

Wally. How about one more blood pressure before you leave?

Roger. Standby.

Sigma Seven. On my mark, the ground elapsed time will be 7 hours, 45 minutes, 40 seconds. Standby. MARK.^T

Roger. I concur.

Roger.

Going to fly-by-wire low at this point. Manual lever in. The capsule attitudes appear to be very good.

That's fly-by-wire low at this time. Sigma Seven?

That's correct. I just want to check this roll out during the daylight side. Pitch is real honest and so is yaw. I think I've got to correct about 6 degrees worth of roll though.

Roger. Gyros are normal? Is that correct?

That's correct.

Wally, we also show a gyro free position on the ground.

Roger. I just went to that free. Standby.

Roger. And do you plan to return to ASCS shortly?

Momentarily.

Roger.

Just coming on to it.

Okay. Stop the blood pressure. We got a good one, Wally.

Okay. Stand by—normal ASCS.

Roger. We're reading—gyros normal.

Roger. The scanner test was what the problem was. And the roll went off as we anticipated it would. And I am going back to gyros normal, at this time, which is about 2 minutes early. This is the routine that was on the flight plan, if you'll see it.

Roger.

Okay, we should pick up this roll problem that I had there now that we've got the scanners back on the line. Looked pretty good for pitch though, it's beautiful.

Roger. And the gyros are showing, at this time, only a 4 degree difference, and that is decreasing.

Roger. That's the deal. That's what I wanted you to check for me while I was over your station, Scott. Thank you. So it looks like the ASCS is pure. I am now in -

Scanners are also in agree—pitch scanners in agreement with your gyros, and we have T/M LOS.

Roger. I'm happy here.

This is Sigma Seven. A 30 second HF check, at 07 50 minutes commencing at 10 seconds after that. This is a 30 second duration test, as I pass down through the coast of Baja California, enroute to South—South America. Every system is working very properly. I have 5 more seconds of check to go. Test out. Sigma Seven. Switching to UHF for relay.

Warfare. Auto Two.