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you

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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 we will relive the historic

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spaceflight of John Glenn in 1962 a

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mercury spacecraft was launched into

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orbit called friendship 7 this mercury

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spacecraft carried Glenn around earth

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three times now for our program got the

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started

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picked me back up

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look real good from here 70 seconds

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leaving a nice paper trail now looks

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real fine butch good Becky 80 seconds

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bye

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I five power going out going I go

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capsule is in good shape still a 103-102

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oxygen 478 100 gallon freezer holding

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steady at 58 answers 6 all systems are

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go seek our sustainer engine cutoff the

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moment when the final Atlas engine will

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shut down when friendship 7 should

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separate from the booster rocket and

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begin orbital flight go father creates

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fired okay writers they r ok and I feel

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fine caps with turning around oh that

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to John Glenn now belongs an awesome

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panorama the world curving beneath him

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justice' with film from an earlier

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Mercury capsule I could save a bastard

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very dirty rear delt a couple hundred

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clear pack of 6 cloud fought her way

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zhe I have nothing very fine feeling it

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just feels very normal and very good

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Roger friendship seven Algie look for

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Mira Costa real good save a surgery for

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Tony okay old system okay good voice

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contact both ways Roger friendship seven

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a new report on control system checks

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not yet everything appears to be going

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okay I'm now on the offer a check we are

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right on schedule very good very good so

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distributing you're cutting out on UHF

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can we go to hf Roger join bridge up to

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review the Capcom on here Richie up

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rich chips I'm gonna read you a very

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weak give you status on control system

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going across

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I'll be over this is a tunnel Capcom I

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read you loud and clear how do you read

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Roger I monitored part of your

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controller canary and heard your

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comments on the weather or Africa we had

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dusty weather here

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hardly to see a lot of this part of

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Roger will you give us a status report

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Roger do you understand by 4 retro

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persephone you are fading rapidly

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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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friendship seven squeaks through the

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night of tomorrow and races toward the

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dawn of yesterday above the Indian Ocean

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flashes friendship seven far beyond

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human sight seen only by the electronic

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instruments of the coastal country as

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she records the lightning passage of the

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for John Glenn the familiar time

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references of Earth no longer applies

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for he journeys around our world in just

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88 minutes out racing the Sun that needs

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mrs. Boucher can't take friendships

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element is Roger friendship seven ish a

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Capcom a real fine up here everything is

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going very well very good John short day

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time and is rapidly shortly may observe

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life down here you want to take a check

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on I'll be right over I'm all set to see

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if I can't get them in sight all right

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here I any sense of vertigo and all

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these all I feel fine over show a white

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insight on the ground over our

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understand they're just off to your

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right there is just a my right eye can

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see a big

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right apparently right on the coast

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your while thank everybody for coming

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apart will you are are you sure well

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you have a chance could you give us a

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particle that i can buy coming around

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the capsule occasionally over

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Roger how big are these particles over

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there of the sixteenth of an aunt who is

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followed by the window and I can see

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them against the dark sky just at

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sunrise there were literally thousands

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LOL loss of signal guaymas has lost

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contact and friendship seven streaks

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home and unseen comics darting across

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the land minor trouble aboard friendship

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seven report a malfunction in the

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automatic control system was causing the

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spacecraft to your in skid like fashion

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away from as proper flight attitude but

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Glenn is overriding the faulty system

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and now manually controlled friendship

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seven on fly-by-wire directing its

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movements by hand control much like a

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when we have a telemetry solid and check

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all your systems out okay

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we want you to start the pre dark side

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precious therapist is a cop take white

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seven a Capcom will you confirm that

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your landing bang switch is in the off

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position over position all right he ever

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did any of banging noises or hang of

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this five-day fire rate they want this

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after last behind that routine report

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the first hint of potential disaster it

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came when astronaut Cooper relayed a

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request from mercury control asking

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Glenn to check the status lights for the

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capsules landing impact bag clean report

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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 seven seems to have come

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loose friendship seven this is

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California compact California caramel

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when he kept car with the language on

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writing a much better now are you very

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good come here a bed to real happy with

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let's go by this time we'll see you next

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time around this is my can control we

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now have a contact with our wireless

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Mexico station and with the Corpus

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Christi Texas charging station the

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friendship 7 spacecraft is now committed

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to its third orbit this is mercury

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control in mercury control at Cape

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Canaveral a decision must be made and

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soon the signal pulsing down from

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friendship 7 indicates still that the

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heat shield is loose could the signal be

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erroneous there is no way to tell but if

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it's true then John Glenn could perish

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in a searing Inferno when he plunges

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back into the atmosphere the

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retrorockets that slowed the spacecraft

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and headed back toward Earth are

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strapped over the shield if they were

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left on after retrofire instead of being

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jettisoned as in normal reentry then

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their straps might hold the shield in

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place before they burn off they might

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possibly save Glenn from the 3,000

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degrees of re-entry heat until he's deep

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enough into the atmosphere for its force

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to hold the shield in place what the

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decision must be made soon even now

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Glenn is streaking toward the United

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States and he must begin the retro

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sequence 300 miles west of California if

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area 700 miles south and east of Florida

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will give you the countdown for reckless

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a question you look good all right we

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only have 50 seconds to retrograde over

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that's affirm Oh give you a part of 45

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for California this is Kate white okay

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but we'd like to leave the package on at

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least through Texas so keep telling his

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peaches retro jettison switch off your

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writer barbaric Oh Roger baby are they

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ever it feels like I'm going back turn

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away that you want to go to East Coast

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writing red roses stop 500 I take your

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what's good while he will see you Becky

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for this reason over all riders they

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alright alright

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all right you understand i will have to

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make a male to fight the entry when it

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occurred and the briga scope in manually

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a firm alrighty redirecting scope

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manually with the retro package on he

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noticed alia to stop in that pack of

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all right by your crap you're going out

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all contact with John Glenn and bunch of

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the furnace light heat of reentry has

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created a barrier of ionization around

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alone he plunges back to order of fiery

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now keep rigid salmon over

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keep it 70 receive over the thickening

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atmosphere breaks his descent slowing

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to 1300 miles an hour in slightly over

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three minutes and the forces of gravity

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slam against John Glenn until he weighs

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okay princess panettiere came over

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7's escape test may find your ID is

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within one mile of the upper age

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destroyer voice call 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 7 but John Glenn cannot hear

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the message 443 clay never spot on time

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seven going to throw early it's a rocky

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rocky mountain drove him out Roger

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trophy on a 30 thousand in about a 90

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creo Roger drop looks good Scott did not

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all right you re entry cichlid complete

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coming down on dance circles are open

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new doctrine Judith out in Reese

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conditioner 10,800 seated beautiful

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it looks good I know to emergency and

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then she very good real estate has

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gone to about 42 feet per second they

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hello mercury recovery this is pretty

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hip 70 right here still here friendship

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home is the Voyager

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behind a journey of eighty-one thousand

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miles through three days and three

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at three or four p.m. eastern standard

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time friendship seven comes to rest

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aboard the United States destroyer Noah

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and John Glenn returns to the people of

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Earth a change of clothes a breath of

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cool air a short debrief then Glenn

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leaves the Noah heading for the aircraft

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carrier Randolph under the golden

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John Glenn's historic spaceflight paved

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the way for others to follow thank you

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for joining us for this edition of the

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astronauts I'm Lynn Bondurant at the