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welcome to this edition of the

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astronauts I'm Lynn Bondurant during

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this program will take a look at the

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many people and scientific technologies

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responsible for the first American space

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flight around the earth in 1962 John

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Glenn took the historic voyage in a

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mercury spacecraft called friendship

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seven part one of our program covers

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flight preparation background of Project

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Mercury and the worldwide spacecraft

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tracking network the countdown and one

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to get underway Cape Canaveral and a

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pimp the launch astronaut John Glenn

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into orbit around the world according to

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the british broadcasting corporation in

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London the 0r the caribbean island

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florida who in for the blue lady on

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eharmony to the power of true north

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american not of comparing new people

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astronaut on a return of junk on our

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campus Canaveral Florida get the hot

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girl Martin Kenya is over to hold an

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item lordy todo con debacle Michael come

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here and you're hungry Hitler barranca

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americano to skokie sangram no soy como

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se me esta Mercutio I'm say portado que

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ambos a doctrine Alta escucho a

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friendship shitty and report the

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astronauts condition is excellent care

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atlantic cape canaveral and then after

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not glenwood weather still remains the

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big question mark put the countdown for

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crown Glen they countdown is again under

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with the entire world is our witness the

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countdown begins at cape canaveral

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florida for one of man's greatest

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adventures it begins here with these men

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for they are the launch team and from

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now until the instant of flight the

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paint of today's mission west

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principally upon their skills and

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judgments the countdown is their master

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plan and they proceeded through its

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ritual with on hurry deliberation its

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pages contain the timetable of order

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they must follow to awaken a giant

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machine to test its readiness and to

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climate for the one supreme moment for

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which it was created now Peter e-banking

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buh-buh-buh stand down now Peter Reid

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11.56 for a minute after minute page

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upon page the count continues and in the

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night beyond this block house a modified

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Air Force Atlas rocket now hums with

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restless energy beneath the mercury

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spacecraft as these men usher it toward

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its final minutes honor today is

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februari twentieth nineteen sixty-two

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and today if all goes well the men here

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will launch an American astronaut into

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orbit around the world in a spacecraft

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friendship seven awaits its pilot and

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the pilot has waited three years for

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this day three long arduous years of

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study of training of waiting and now

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astronaut John Glenn of New Concord Ohio

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Lieutenant Colonel United States Marine

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Corps married father of two teenage

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children Glenn has been a pilot over

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half of his 40 years has flown in two

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wars and as a veteran test pilot who

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five years earlier established a

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transcontinental flight record as the

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first man to average supersonic speeds

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across America he volunteered for Space

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Flight is one of seven astronauts

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selected for Project Mercury the man and

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space program directed by the National

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two teammates a pioneered the way into

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space for Glenn astronaut alan shepard

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and Virgil Grissom tested the mercury

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spacecraft on trailblazing sub-orbital

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mission proving equipment and pushing

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flight and now it's Glenn's turn ready

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for presentation now to Glen Falls the

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challenge of man's next advance in his

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face for he has been chosen to cross the

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threshold gained by shepard and Grissom

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and to orbit the world so the countdown

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continues for John Glenn and it

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continues beyond this room for

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friendship seven and it continues this

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these are John Glenn's ground-based

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co-pilots men he knows well with whom

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he's trained in whose judgment his wife

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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 command that will govern the course

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of the mission protected to these men

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throughout the plane will further facts

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needed for decision the scope of their

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responsibility of the entire operation

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defies comprehension now this very

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instant I the countdown for flight

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continues around the world on three

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continents on islands in ships and

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network proceed with the countdown the

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tracking and telemetry stations 18 at

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all form an avenue of electronic

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checkpoints around the world to monitor

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and communicate with friendship 7 as it

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passes overhead telemetry M&O all right

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radar is the eyes of distinction

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satisfied then telemetry is the ears

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each second telemetry will fear and

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record nearly 2,000 items of information

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radial down from friendship 7 addictive

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engineers and scientists will find in

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telemetry records the answers needed for

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the folder space exploration of the

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beauty displays and recorders have been

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calibrated Rogers I kill white this is

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operating out of Trinidad rose not will

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communicate with friendship seven and

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monitor its journey as it streaks across

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coastal centering just like it's the

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Island of Hawaii and their men prepare

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for the arrival of friendship 7 each

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word again deeper into the day that will

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soon awaken over the Americas each word

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is prezi count her Roger southeast no to

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the farmlands of Texas where the station

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preparations for flight Roger all

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calibrations at this time let's count

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the heart of the worldwide mercury

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network the computing and communication

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center that Bond's it into a working

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entity this is the Goddard Space Flight

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Center in Greenbelt Maryland through

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here follows the voice and teletype

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communications that link the global

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stations to mercury control the

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computers an able man two weeks

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judgments within the flashes of time

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that moves faster than a brain can react

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throughout the flight the computers will

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generate recommendations on whether the

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mission should continue or be aborted

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they will determine locations of the

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and the most vital of these findings

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Cape Canaveral what are the thoughts of

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a man about to rock

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to history glenn is the astronaut the

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man who will challenge space but he is

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just one member of an international

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scientific endeavor that requires the

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genius and skills of some 40,000 other

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men and women scattered throughout the

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world from the engineers and technicians

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who produce the face vehicle to the

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crews now preparing to launch it from

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the tracking experts who will charge his

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voice around the globe to the sailors

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now waiting at sea to recover him behind

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this day stands years the preparation of

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research and testing of planning and

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training and the purpose of it all is

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knowledge knowledge of space and of how

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effectively man and spacecraft can

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function together in a hostile

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environment knowledge that will serve as

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the basis for space explorations of the

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future hard-won knowledge of benefit to

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all men bought by sacrifice and

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now just a handful of Menace remain

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until the spacecraft through on the

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the sound of John Glenn's life his heart

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the trials ahead into the soft light of

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this Florida Don emerges friendship

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seven making its debut to the day of its

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the mercury Atlas stands alone wait to

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depart this earth a quarter of a million

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pounds of rocket with thrust equal to

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three and a half million horsepower all

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interrogation at one minute the

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flight and recovery teams here at the

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cape and around the world ready

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themselves to aid the astronaut above

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all else John Glenn safety is paramount

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the dictating factor in all planning

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never in all of history have so many

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people shared without censorship an

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adventure of such magnitude through all

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news media in all languages all the

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peoples of the world are witness to this

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exploration of space to its success or

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standing by revealing actually five

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to 3-7 will love we may have it by that

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project you want the whole purnima we

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would like to all the seven and rerun a

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beast if we loved our main power on the

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computer we just want to take that

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nothing else goes wrong when you have to

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make somewhere between five and ten

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minutes Dave can't you expedite make it

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five all stations are holding at six

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minutes and 30 seconds custom at five

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minutes we could let it go you're ready

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are you ready to continue okay go ahead

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type it your attention please Oh maman

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we will pick up the count at t-minus six

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the time there's and soon this earth

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path indicator in the capsule will begin

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showing John Glenn his changing

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freestyle writer-director any light is

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on he checked the umbilical oil evacuate

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43 umbilical clear for easy fights on

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our recorders to fast team under 18

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seconds and counting engine start hey

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the we would be with you from a good

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long ride all the way godspeed john

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your backup clock is started thank you

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for joining us for this edition of the

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astronauts part two of friendship seven

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will be shown in our next program which

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will highlight the historic spaceflight

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of John Glenn until then I'm Lynn