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Pilot reports fuel system go, at .2 g, cabin 14 pounds per square inch, oxygen system go, all A-OK.
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Freedom 7 in voice communication with the Mercury Control Center…reports 3.5 g, cabin pressure holding fine.
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The flight trajectory is still A-OK, the pilot is in good voice communication with Mercury Control.
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Freedom 7 with astronaut Alan B. Shepard reports the fuel system is go, 4 g, cabin 5.5 pounds per square inch oxygen go, all systems go.
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Periscope coming out.
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Pilot reports three- to four-tenths cloud cover along the eastern coast of the United States, obscuring the eastern coast up through Cape Hatteras.
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The mission is now six minutes and forty seconds old. Astronaut Alan B. Shepard is still talking to us, working like a test pilot, reporting facts and figures, reporting procedures in the precise engineering manner of a test pilot.
Spoken on May 5, 1961, 2:36 p.m. UTC (63 years ago). Link to this transcript range is: Tweet