Στοίχοι: Tic Tok Men (The). Arecebo. The Golden Age Of Space Travel.
--------------LAUNCH
Cap Com: Minus 40.
Cap Com: Status check. Pressurization?
Cap Com: Go.
Cap Com: Locks?
Cap Com: I have a blinking on level 1.
Cap Com: You are go.
Cap Com: Order systems?
Cap Com: Go.
Cap Com: Range operations?
Cap Com: All clear to lanch.
Cap Com: Mercury capsule?
Glenn: Go.
Cap Com: All preset panel lights are correct, the ready light is on, eject from the umbilical.
Cap Com: Oil evacuate.
Cap Com: Mercury umbilical clear.
Cap Com: All recorders to fast, T-minus 18 seconds and counting, engines start.
Cap Com: Good Lord ride all the way.
Cap Com: God Speed John Glenn.
--------------ORBIT
Glenn:Ah, roger. Friendship 7. All system are go in the capsule.
Glenn: Ah, Roger this is Friendship 7. I'm controlling fly by wire present time. I have no left yaw low thrust. Over.
Glenn:Ah, roger. Friendship 7. All system are go in the capsule.
Glenn: Affirmative, I am go for the next orbit.
Cap-Com: MCC confirms they are go at the present time for third orbit.
--------------OBSERVATIONS
Glenn: I still have some of these particles that I cannot identify coming around the capsule occasionally. Over.
Cap Com: How big are these particles? Over.
Glenn: Very small, I would indicate they are on the order of 16th of an inch or smaller. They drift by the window and I can see them against the dark sky. There were literally thousands of them. It looked just like a myriad of stars.
--------------REENTRY
Cap Com: We feel it is possible to reenter with the retropackage on. Ah, we see no difficulty at this time in that type of reentry. Over.
Cap Com: 5-4-3-2-1-fire.
Glenn: My condition is good, but that was a real fireball, boy. I had great chunks of that retropack breaking off all the way through.
Glenn: Ah, roger. Friendship 7. All system are go in the capsule.
--------------TOUCHDOWN
Glenn: Main chute in on green. Chute is out, in reef condition at 10,800 feet and beautiful chute. Chute looks good. On O2 emergency and the chute looks very good