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please our John Glenn's ground-based

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co-pilots men he knows well with whom

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he's trained and in whose judgment his

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life is entrusted this day they are the

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flight controllers and from the mercury

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control center within view of the launch

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complex they make the decisions issue

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the commands that will govern the course

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of the mission connected to these men

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throughout the flight will further the

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facts needed for decision the scope of

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their responsibility of the entire

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operational defies comprehension now

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this very instant light the countdown

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for flight continues around the world on

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three continents on islands in ships and

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planes that can lands where de comer and

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tomorrow is near czech lands where it's

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Roger ctc market controllers

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if godspeed john glenn yeah

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started

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across Africa races friendship seven at

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17,500 45 miles an hour 300 miles a

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minute for miles for every heartbeat of

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the first hint of potential disaster it

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came when Castro not Cooper relayed a

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request from mercury control asked

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England to check the status lights for

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the capsules landing impact bag reports

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status normal but ground stations are

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now receiving an ominous chilling signal

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an indication that the heat shield on

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friendship 7 seems to have come loose in

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mercury control at Cape Canaveral a

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decision must be made and soon the

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signal pulsing down from friendship 7

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indicates still that the heat shield is

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loose could the signal be erroneous

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there is no way to tell but if it's true

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then John Glenn could perish in a

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searing Inferno when he plunges back

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into the atmosphere the retrorockets

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that slowed the spacecraft and headed

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back toward Earth are strapped over the

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shield if they were left on after

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retrofire instead of being jettisoned as

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in normal reentry then their straps

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might hold the shield in place before

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they burn off they might possibly save

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Glenn from the 3,000 degrees of re-entry

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heat until he's deep enough into the

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atmosphere for its force to hold the

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shield in place what the decision must

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be made soon will give you the countdown

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for retro sequenced I'm John you're

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that's affirm I'll give you a mark 45

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Mar California California this escape

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slight break a fight we'd like to leave

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the package on at least through Texas

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Saul keep going to keep this retro

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jettison switch off John leave your

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retro pack on through your passed over

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Texas Oh Roger baby are they ever it

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we all contact with John Glenn and

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friendship seven is lost the furnace

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like heat of reentry has created a

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barrier of ionization around friendship

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range destroyer royce hall is steelhead

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steelhead is the code name for the

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destroyer noah waiting to recover

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friendship seven but John Glenn cannot

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hear the message around 443 flight never

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alright you realize where how you doing

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I condition good but that was a real

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fireball boy I had great jump for that

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retro pack breaking off all the way

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through green shooter that a trees

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condition at ten thousand eight hundred

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feet in beautiful shoot it looks good

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hello mercury recovery this is

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friendship seven looks very good over

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home is the Voyager at 304 p.m. eastern

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standard time friendship seven comes to

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rest award the United States destroyer

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Noah

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today John Glenn and the mercury team