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CAPSULE TO EARTH Glenn Describes Flight
FOLLOWING is the unofficial transcript OF the part OF the conversations betUeen AStro- maui John H. Glenn and the ground that ,DaS received too late to be used in yesterdays final editions of The Star. This section, from Which some technical references haze been eliminated, begins ,Uith Col. Glenn's exchange 1Dith Astronaut Gordon Cooper as the Friendship 2 passed ouer Australia. Glenn-Hello, Coop, this i. Friendship 7 reading you louc and clear. COoper-Roger, Friendship 7 this is Coop. Over. Glenn-Roger. Cooper-How are you doing Colonel? Glenn-We are doing real fine up here, everything is going real well. Over. COOper-Very good, John You sound good. Glenn-All systems are still go, having no problems at all Control systems operating fine. Over. COoper-Do you have any landmark observations? Glenn-Roger, I was Just making some for the recorder and the only unusual thing have noticed was the rather high, what appeared to be a haze layer up some 7 or s degrees above the horizon on the night side, the stars I can see through it as they go down toward the real horizon, but it is a very visible single band or layer or above the nor NAL horizon. Over. COOper-Roger. Very inter- eSting. Glenn-I had a lot of clouo cover coming off of Africa. 1t has thinned out consider ably now, and although I can not definitely see there is a lot of moonlight here that reflects off of what clouds there are. Over. COOper-Roger and ex- cellent, John shortly you may observe some lights down there. Do you want to take a check on that, to your right: Over. Glenn-Roger. I am all set to see If I get them in sight. CoOper-You did have your visor closed? Glenn-I did have it opened for a little while. It is closeo now. Cabin perssure is hold ing good shape. Over . L fee. fine. Over. COOper-Good show Glenn-That was sure a short day. That was about the shortest day have ever run into. COOper-Time passes rapidly, Ell? Glenn-YeS, sir. CoOper-Okay. Do you have
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Mercury-Atlas 7
Mercury-Atlas 7, launched May 24, 1962, was the fourth crewed flight of Project Mercury. The spacecraft, named Aurora 7, was piloted by astronaut Scott Carpenter. However, a targeting error during reentry took the spacecraft 250 miles (400 km) off-course, delaying recovery of Carpenter and the spacecraft for an hour.
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