Mercury 3 transcript starting at 02 35 on Spacelog

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02 35
Shorty Powers: Periscope coming out.
02 48
Shorty Powers: Turnaround started. Assuming orbital attitude.
02 54
Shorty Powers: He's going to hand-controlled movements now.
03 06
Shorty Powers: Switching to manual control of the pitch attitude.
03 16
Shorty Powers: Trajectory looks A-OK.
03 23
Shorty Powers: Pitch control A-OK.
03 26
Shorty Powers: Switching to manual yaw.
03 38
Shorty Powers: Medical monitor in Mercury Control reports pilot's condition appears to be excellent.
03 47
Shorty Powers: Taking over manual control of the roll attitude.
03 59
Shorty Powers: Roll is OK.
04 02
Shorty Powers: Working now—“What a beautiful view!” is a quote.
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04 22
Shorty Powers: Pilot reports three- to four-tenths cloud cover along the eastern coast of the United States, obscuring the eastern coast up through Cape Hatteras.
04 48
Shorty Powers: Pilot reports assuming retro attitude, initiating retrofire sequence.
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04 57
Shorty Powers: Pilot reports mission “very smooth.”
05 13
Shorty Powers: Retro rocket number one has fired.
05 17
Shorty Powers: Retro number two has fired.
05 26
Shorty Powers: Retro number three has fired.
05 42
Shorty Powers: Preparing to jettison the retro rocket pod.
05 48
Shorty Powers: We are still receiving excellent voice communication from the pilot.
05 54
Shorty Powers: Medical monitor reports everything A-OK in the cockpit.
06 15
Shorty Powers: The retro rocket packet has jettisoned. The retro rocket packet has been jettisoned.
06 34
Shorty Powers: 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.

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