- RKV CapCom
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Molly Brown, RKV. I'm getting an indication of OAMS thrust forward-firing. I have negative OAMS yaw firing on the ground.
- Gus Grissom
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We're not doing any firing. We're not even in MANEUVER and ATTITUDE and we haven't touched the handle.
- Gus Grissom
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Okay. It will be about two minutes before we start it. So you punch off your stopwatch and tell me — give me a mark to stop it—just in case it doesn't go to zero.
- John Young
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Yes, but it should have been 48. I don't know why it came out to 50. Should we bring it down to 48?
- Gus Grissom
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Key moment First orbit change of a crewed spacecraft, lowering the orbit into an almost circular one: MARK!
- Gus Grissom
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A bolt just stuck up against the instrument panel.
Expand selection up Contract selection down Close - Gus Grissom
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They sure blurp a lot, don't they? That may be attitude control thrusters though. Probably what it is.
- John Young
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A minute, five.
Expand selection down Contract selection up - Gus Grissom
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What did we do? Burn down an—give me a mark.
Expand selection down Contract selection up - Gus Grissom
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And when we started out, the IVI's were reading 51 ft/sec, and I burned them down to 2 ft/sec aft.
- Gus Grissom
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As we started to burn my IVI's read 51 ft/sec, and we burned them down to the place where they read 2 ft/sec.
- Gordon Cooper (CapCom)
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Okay, Molly Brown. Looks like your OAMS has leveled out before your burn. Can you give us an OAMS source pressure and temp again now?
- Gordon Cooper (CapCom)
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Roger. it looks like that pressure switch on that O2 is failed. You probably better bring that O2 heater from AUTOMATIC to OFF, and then manually control the temp from then on—the pressure from then on.
- Gordon Cooper (CapCom)
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Okay. I have a time for you, where you will be nearest to the booster. Would you like to have that so you can look for it?
- Gordon Cooper (CapCom)
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Roger. 02 + 08 + 52. Will be dead ahead at an elevation of plus 80° at 190 miles. This will be just prior to darkness. It should be very bright. Proceed to see if you can rendezvous.
Spoken on March 23, 1965, 3:57 p.m. UTC (59 years, 8 months ago). Link to this transcript range is: Tweet