Spacelog Mercury 3

Periscope coming out.

Turnaround started. Assuming orbital attitude.

He's going to hand-controlled movements now.

Switching to manual control of the pitch attitude.

Trajectory looks A-OK.

Pitch control A-OK.

Switching to manual yaw.

Medical monitor in Mercury Control reports pilot's condition appears to be excellent.

Taking over manual control of the roll attitude.

Roll is OK.

Working now—“What a beautiful view!” is a quote.

Pilot reports three- to four-tenths cloud cover along the eastern coast of the United States, obscuring the eastern coast up through Cape Hatteras.

Pilot reports assuming retro attitude, initiating retrofire sequence.

Pilot reports mission “very smooth.”

Retro rocket number one has fired.

Retro number two has fired.

Retro number three has fired.

Preparing to jettison the retro rocket pod.

We are still receiving excellent voice communication from the pilot.

Medical monitor reports everything A-OK in the cockpit.

The retro rocket packet has jettisoned. The retro rocket packet has been jettisoned.

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.