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This is the tension building moment to replicate Silencio money manager spacecraft on telecom out gravity minus nineteen seconds. T. minus ten seconds counting eight seven six five four three two Ron there's Iran assailing connection left off A.M.A. six Pambo has rested up A.M.A. said someone has left that I. Checked three looks good. They have a six vehicle that's not the launch pad. And forty seven minutes after the hour and. A whining nicely. Systems are reported. Range daily reports it is offering. To have a six vehicle mining. Goes on land right in the nation or the Atlas booster riding the crest of the largest or in my final flame. The mercury control center so far reporting the trajectory is OK Everything looks alright from here. To them a six vehicles I think nicely has passed through the area maximum dynamic pressures Iowa town planners reporting also stem cells is getting protein reports reading office instruments. The big rock band rates were just last there was a little there and it left some contrails behind John Glenn reporting everything going very smoothly there is a man writing that big rocket with three hundred sixty thousand more spotted. Our primitive station right parked it has a valid track on and they have a suspect vehicle first tracking station reporting in saying it has a good track on the rockets and the space vehicle will know shortly whether it has gone into more parts as cabin pressure or holding at five point eight pounds per square inch. On venerate parts all systems are go. I am a secondary goal is approaching it sustain our engine cutoff point on right parts also times and in the spacecraft arc I'll fight for a factory still that's good when they sustain our engines cut off there will be shortly after that the separation of the booster from the space capsule and at that time the orbital velocity is reached and we'll go into orbit perhaps at the suspension has cut off as planned everything is proceeding on schedule now right on time line reports serology and I feel fine he says the view is painted as John Glenn is about one hundred plus miles out into space at the present time there will be separation soon of the capsule from the booster that seen a poster turning around behind him a virus that I thought the sight of the poster falling away behind him was a beautiful sight the same. BLAIR It is the booster has separated from the capsule and John Glenn is on his way into orbit. John Van reports he can see a very large club at pattern and clear a back to our Cape Canaveral and says it's a beautiful sight. John Black reports a spacecraft has turned around the clock heat shield is facing the direction of light and is tilted up about thirty four degrees above or is awful but these are a preplanned all but all attitude all indications here are that we will have we will be able to confirm orbit within a matter of a couple of minutes at this time we have the tape recording of John Glenn's voice as he lifted off from Cape Canaveral and they first six or seven minutes of his flight this is mercury control standing by while you're the tape. Wearing green. Arrow. Operating. Right here real loud and clear. OK. Be a lot about here. Is your. Camera for twenty seconds for a. Watch Mark back up started. Seventy eight. Five. Right here OK Finally here on YOUR. Right right coming up here. Right here. John. And. I just. No. No. No. Vibration in. The idea you write that is very good for a very real. And I think you're going down by that OK. All right yes all right that is good. Because. I have a great read OK. I do stand by. OK And I feel fine capitalists turning around. Amanda. That's all turning around and I could see the poster throwing her hands up a couple of hundred yards behind me it was. The right that you had a place. That you understand go for at least. The do. The every legislator. The Go. I got done. The same. The thing. Is there for example during quarter. Of the year. I don't think. I'm going to really. The same. The visit over. The years. I. Hope. I have that's got the gun. Burning. Don't you know. How are you. Going. You know many of the. Government. The and. The signing. Of the first. One. The of. Her. The first the image of. Her OK. I think. Good. Hope. All right. What are you. I guess. Astronaut John Glenn has left contact with Alan Shepard here in the control center. Thank you. Stepson. Latin player. Going on five I can accurately. Just started if I got to one of my. And be. Ya. I don't know right now one degree back and forth about twenty degree and how. About a five a great point and then go to an orientation and back of it was like going back and forth a map. Of our lives I am controlling manually or. Roger I understand you go for a job rather.. Than OK To borrow your five year old girl. Girl to. Answer your phone or that one runaway a real one five five zero zero zero zero zero zero zero zero zero zero zero zero zero zero zero zero zero zero zero zero zero zero one five zero zero zero zero zero zero zero zero zero zero zero. Zero zero two. Zero zero zero zero zero zero five. There I believe I am. The one that I'm proud. I just don't wake up America back your. Friends and family thank. You. All right just. Start up on your thirty minute report. And since I'm not going to going manually on the fly by law I think that the. Bank wouldn't leave the can come overnight I'd like. Still the same on the. Right. Account of the name of. A.F.C.'s it is a fly by wire on top of all. The handles are in the left. I have learned a lot of the colors that but as a diabetic testified he can see the Democrats but I cannot quite see the cape yet. Back and then you know if they went by the lights going. Up as a landing bag. Then they can go OK control feel it as a player. One hundred ninety. That's a great time to set in is zero four plus three two plus two. All right just donating you. Can communicate. I doubt the add on communication I said I thought if they had a call with then I would stop the tackler not yet look at you next time. Continuing reporter Kevin Baker five holding knife like Cavanagh is. Relative humidity zero zero six seven the temperature six seven on the phone five eight on the pressure steam temperature rising on coming down slowly. Oh you really are new to operate the Friday after Yeah proper. Particle particle Veronica photo. All right at sunrise over the prophetic over. Right the runway are out look like your good fibro right there for this is our carry control the Corpus Christi Texas docking station made contact with the Friendship seven at two twenty six P.M. Eastern Standard Time we are in contact with astronaut John Glenn as a precautionary measure we have asked him to retain his retro rocket back we have just made initial contact with the mercury spacecraft at Cape Canaveral That's at two twenty eight P.M. Eastern Standard Time on the basis of his flight I am we would estimate a landing at approximately thirty seven or thirty eight minutes after the hour that's as much of a control Friendship seven spacecraft as approaching the coast of Florida at this time during his reentry process we have advised him at the weather in his landing area involves one tenth cloud cover and ten miles visibility for that any hazard at all during the landing operations is now on the maintaining control of the spacecraft using the fly by wire system and the manual system as a backup that's as much or a control. Thing a go. Normal. Crew record. I'm going to marry or. Whatever. Arago. I will. We're reading loud and clear right now to get to which back on the authorization. OK. We're not raining now all right. You know you could read through a current like with. Every one ground we could. All real during the fall they would think they were are going to cross I think we. Are equal to the. Oh oh oh oh. Oh oh. Oh. Oh. Oh. Oh oh oh. Oh. Oh. Oh oh oh. Oh. I am here I don't think. I mean. OK now. I mean I am. Thinking. OK. You know you. Have. Eight seven six. Four three two. All right. Right. Right. Thank you Your Honor I. Don't do that you want to. Write your. Thank you and write all the time yes I have no night out of the car thank a dramatic rescue not get the camera right. Project. What we. Really want to thank you thank you. Thank you very well because. Here. I want you back. To California. From. Dark right. I have. I'm. Fourteen people join correspondent Bill down down rain in just a moment correspondent downs aboard the U aircraft carrier Randolph is quite some distance from the capsule and it's quite possible he cannot see the parachute the main chute a large one on the smaller one the drop chute that opened earlier a destroyer is closer to the area of the capsule impact and it just might be that a lack of communications has not given us the information on one of the chutes have been spotted around off is not as close as a destroyer and unfortunately there is no news reporter aboard the destroyer So we have that have not received that information yet. Let's join the downrange people once again. After what. Their first. I would never want to have to work. And. Have. I don't. Know I have to fight off like I think. Every. Report we're getting now can make the aircraft carrier Randolph correspondent down to indicate that the capsule is in sight of the joy of Noah and great many African moments here in the past few minutes surely they were forced to the aircraft carrier Randolph were erroneous the capsule did land where Mercury controls within a mile destroyer which is much closer to the impact area even though Randolph why there was something fusion from the Randolph on the fact that they did not like to grow parachute on the main parachute of the capsule and cause a great deal of excitement and apprehension here well after wait for reports from the destroyer no and Mercury control in the meantime let's go back to the aircraft carrier Randolph and see what the situation is down right. Now. And we were kind of. Oh I have a couple went right. Off the. Helicopter. Where you have one of the answers on why the people of board the Randolph did not see the small drop parachute open at twenty one thousand feet or the main big chute open at ten thousand feet they were approximately fifty five miles from the area and that was the cause of some of the confusion down range on the destroyer no one has the capsule in sight and from earlier launching is around you're the one with Shepard the one with versa man the one with the nose the chimpanzee recently it's the experience of people here that it takes quite a bit of time for that capsule to come through the atmosphere and then it is slowed considerably by the deployment of the parachute so it takes a while for it to come down in the water we've not yet heard anything from Mercury control on the condition of the astronauts because they're having some some form of atmospheric conditions that are interfering with radio in the meantime let's go over to Mike Levine with a little more information on the recovery operation. What a man said what I meant by John Glenn as we get the report on the press site and if you hear of the. Launch missile launching site we get the word the John Glenn went into his retro firing sequence manually he had all those electronic brains to help him fire his retro rockets to put on the brakes by mechanical means he did it himself apparently he's been manually operating his capsule for quite some time particularly difficult job what with the trouble he's been having on his attitude control while he's some fifty five miles northwest of the carrier Randolph right now all the people around here consider that they have a read of the needle he's well inside a recovery zone there are some twenty naval ships out there some fifteen thousand men on those ships waiting to scoop up that John Glenn waiting to scoop up his capsule the helicopters will probably Mr Grant himself up with the worst color the destroyer is equipped with cranes with which they can lift the capsule out of the sea and if necessary they don't have to go anywhere near the carrier thank you bring up ashore bring the capsule ashore on that destroyer. They're taking extreme precautions to recover that capsule and astronaut Glenn there's a lot of new equipment on this flight part of it is the photo Asian ring the. Excuse me the helicopters going out to scoop them up each of them have a team of frogman aboard those frogmen well after the helicopters drop down low to the water in the vicinity of where they thought that capsule they'll just jump overboard with his big rubber liferaft and they'll just kind of slide it under the bottom of the capsule and inflate it the good reason for this we had the trouble if you recall him the first space traveler wound up with. What pants the inside of his capsule was beginning to ship on a little water and we've unlocked the capsule a very valuable capsule on a later astronaut flight they don't want that to happen so they have the frogman to fly that both ation ring on the capsule to save it and to help the astronaut himself now he and his equipment has a rubber neck bent on his face suit to help keep them afloat and he's got a life vest they may West you sort of attach to the chest of his spacesuit Now there are two problems that were quite concerned about here and in order in order to be perfectly honest we would like to have heard from John Brennan that layer of ion is ation of electrical. Layer of electronic particles in the atmosphere has blocked nobody's done closer to the Earth's surface and a considerable radio transmission would feel a lot more comfortable if we could hear John Glenn say he's a OK he's probably OK from judging from the earlier performance in his life he's quite a guy that's another little problem of a retro packaged was retained on the underside the brunt side of his capsule the first standard the atmosphere now when and if he dumps that retro package it will drop the heat shield bleeding plastic material that absorbs most of that three thousand degrees of heat that that capsule generates as it comes down through the atmosphere. But the retro package as they came down through the first part of his return to earth remained on the bottom of his capsule apparently to help absorb some of that heat we don't know yet whether he jettisoned it is the initial instructions were to dump but over on the West Coast in the vicinity of Texas he kept it as he flashed across the United States incidentally every I would turn toward the sky here at about the time we expected him to cross central Florida but nobody thought he would have been just a twinkling a flashing in the sky as it went over here we missed him he went over pretty fast and quite low his orbit where the from one hundred miles at its lowest point to one hundred sixty miles as high as we have to make that he was of perhaps fifty somewhere between fifty and twelve miles high as we want to cross Florida of the fall of on board that recovery fleet each man on each ship would like to be able to see John Glenn shake his hand but most of all they want to recover him from the ocean that's the big moment when that astronaut comes out of the water we're all all very apprehensive very concerned about his welfare we're waiting template for the moment when we get the report that he is down that he's out of the capsule and the ocean and the horse collar and always stood up to the helicopter and safe once more he's got a big party ahead of him when he gets back here to the United States that's the situation on the present let's go back to said David. Well everybody hears concern we're waiting for some word from the mercury control people who have the exact telemetry information they're attached to John Glenn through other means other than voice contact they have other ways of remaining in contact with John Glenn and the capsule by telemetry John Glenn's time in space from the time he blasted off here at nine forty seven this morning until it's time that the the Retros were fired and that he came down over the Atlantic was about four hours and thirty three minutes that's a pretty good day's work and as you know and have heard already sent a telegram via another aftershock that the Australian tracking station for the Marine Corps commandant that he had completed a part of this month like time requirement as a very far Lieutenant Colonel John Glenn is required to put in so many hours of flight time every month to maintain his status status and to receive an extra paycheck and check amounts to about two hundred forty dollars a month and it's for about eight hours of flight time considering this a four hour flight we say that he's qualified for at least half his monthly requirement for February and so this flight today if you want to put it in terms of dollars and cents for John Glenn amounts to about one hundred twenty dollars and we don't know many people who would do the same for that price but John Glenn isn't that a superb individual a healthy human being who performed actually during the flight when we last heard from him a Mercury control will keep us posted on his condition. The. Destroyer no one is going to be the pick up there there are helicopters in the area and the aircraft carrier Randolph is beaming in the direction of the impact area. Let's go back to my pre control into the immediate vicinity of the spacecraft we anticipate pick up enough by. Carrick until Let's go back to the Randolph and talk to Correspondent Bill down to see if the Randolph has received any information from the destroyer know which is really the pick up the round off now steaming in the direction of the impact area if you look up to our over the capsule site let's go down range now to Bill down on the carrier Randall. Perhaps. Have. You. Ever. Come back. After. All been on our. Program and that might not have happened have. Recovery. Or and all the run off and the fact that. The next. Time. We're part of. A report. And a report of a. Fly. On the way I want. To one contact with the members of the U.S.. He is assisting in the grass fire removing part of the instrument panel and a spot pressure bucket in the upper portion of a spacecraft then he will have to push out the empty parachute canister and crawl out through the narrow upper neck of the spacecraft This is much very controlled because of difficulties in growing the way overhead that the upper neck of the spacecraft crew members aboard the U.S.S. know I have now decided to blow the side hatch and let Jonathan come out that side hatch. That's unusual that's unusual the hatch could have been blown in the water the. Radio reports from the U.S.S. Nora indicate the hatch is now blown clear. Astronaut John Glenn should be stepping out of a spacecraft any moment now. This is the big moment we've been waiting for we want to see John Glenn get up and walk that deck there are no Marines generally on a destroyer they say ride a bigger ship but I'm sure that the through years very happy to have a Marine lieutenant colonel aboard today and John Glenn were waiting for the report of him coming out apparently there had been some difficulty with the neck of the capsule and maybe that's why Glenn elected on orders from project for three people to stay inside and be hoisted aboard the destroyer rather than come up the side hatch the side hatch was the one of the you'll recall that Gus Grissom had difficulty with back in July when the hatch was blown the capsule filled with water and we lost the capsule but fortunately we saved Gus Grissom and perhaps that's one reason why they elected not to come out the side hatch perhaps the water was a little rougher the waves might have been higher they have various reasons for doing this the main thing at the moment is that John Glenn is stepping out of the capsule the present time it appears to be all right the reports from the U.S.S.R. down range indicates record astronaut John Glenn and has about your friendship seven spacecraft is reported to be a hale and hearty astronaut after having successfully for on the United States first manned orbital flight. To Russia astronaut John Glenn is on the back of the U.S.S. now off as reported to be a hanger on Hardy astronauts after his history making flight this is my favorite control and that's the story that's it that's the word we've been waiting for John Glenn is out of the space capsule he's walking Iranis moving is arm he is hale and hearty to quote the words of Colonel John Howard is still go no doubt but he's sailing hearty feeling fine point another word for space people today this one is called Pico we heard about a OK we've heard about go into their. We heard about Pico we'll have to find out what that is when John Glenn comes back this is been for all intents and purposes a very successful mission we sent an American into space today he rode three orbits around the earth encountered some difficulty he elected to stay in his capsule and go the full circle go the fool for your butt travel to the speed of seventeen thousand four hundred miles per hour is not. Altitude from the earth away from the earth the apogee they call it was one hundred fifty miles is low point in his orbit was one hundred miles is blood pressure his heart is breathing apparently function well or else they would not have allowed him to continue on in the entire three orbit mission the launching was a very exciting one at nine forty seven this morning but nothing could have been more exciting than at the end of the second orbit when the capsule had encountered some increase in temperature and in the Congress some difficulty with the attitude guidance system when John Glenn on the people here at Cape Canaveral said we're going to try for three and they didn't allow. I. Think I know we're really proud of you and I must say you didn't want to put your arm. Ladder like I think it down in a very good shape like you watching our father mother on television and they seemed very happy. Oh I thought I know you think it was. Well we're going to go out with you or we're going to come down to Canaveral on Friday and then you come up to Washington on Monday or Tuesday and I look forward to seeing it a. Great. Happiness and thanksgiving of all of us did. You know Glenn has completed his trip and I know that this is particularly felt by Mrs Glenn and his two children. Few days ago Colonel Glynn came to the White House and visited me and he was as are the other astronauts a kind of American of whom we are most proud some years ago as a Marine pilot he raced the sun across this country and last and today. He won I also want to say a word for all those who participated with kind of Lana Canaveral they faced many disappointments and delays the burdens upon them were great but they kept their heads and they made a judgment and I think their judgments been vindicated we have a long way to go in the space race we started late but this is the new ocean and I believe the United States must sail on it and be in a position second to none some years months ago I said that I hope that every American would just serve his country. Today Colonel Glenn S.O.T.S. and we all express our thanks to him. This is Davis reporting from Cape Canaveral where a news conference is in progress a news conference being held by Project Mercury officials and officials of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration on the progress and some of the results of today's orbital flight by John Glenn at present Dr Hugh Dryden the deputy director of NASA is speaking we will join a news conference with Dr you'd write. The mission of the future is greater known to the man. Like you I would imagine the I'm right with the effect and that's what this program is that why and it was the engineering with the second carried out. I think if and when. They hear that initiating our manager they program. A great deal of information to them that they flight. Information couldn't do they had not the man on board. I think we have. For. Many of. The pilot much and hearing data. In a very practical way I fly a plan that we all that. Will not fly out of mission work that the more complicated. And I think just in closing let me say that I feel this is really a great effort on. The engineering effort of this particular game and to the hearing off. Of the network in the United States and I want to my last knowing there. Will be there will be support. For. Me in all. Your listening to. Some of the officials of the Project Mercury explaining part of the mission today the question and answer period is defaults gentlemen you heard a few minutes ago was Brainard Holmes a chief of the manned space flight office of NASA. Gentlemen now speaking to me is the Air Force liaison with NASA. I think and of course we had the Sierra rescue forces deployed around the country in Europe. Pacific Air Force employed. As well as the many medical officers. From the various services who are assigned to support the project Margrave operation went very well in our view I think some of the stations performed practically perfect to protect our great station that the moon. Came up with maximum amount of information the agent passed. And communication were particularly effective that we couldn't tell him or grieving for whether they're coming in to God or directly to one of the video they arranged that part of. A voice for the astronaut from the capsule to the Indian Ocean to have friends and came back by single sideband and also from the Atlantic ship Similarly in the final phases of the recovery. There was a two step realize by airplane and then that was on and off they were great and there's been a very well. All right thing or they just of my own the problem when I was in his crew is product through a lot of practice not a simulation the exercise. Of also adding up to. I would like to remodel the. Realm of the Internet let's say. Let's let's say recovering. Compilation. And no radio no man the amount of work. That has gone. Through the day on the team. Planning. And preparation. Writing. Of all the forces involved. Army. Navy Air Force and Marine. And. The. Recovery which of course paled. And again in this particular case it was. Because. They. Were sighted. Coming down about five miles away from a destroyed. The procurement then of recovery was. The second element retrieval was off the ball or in twenty one minutes they kept to John bland and it was. No. And I hope though the third day. Of recovery which is deliberate Oh yeah I know it will be accomplished without further ado but then. Probably to be associated with. Someone who probably don't need much introduction however. Thank you I wrote. A lot of people are very happy. Having a lot. Right they were directly connected with the fight I think. Same way plead for to go away is the way that they will perform. The way with a will. And a way with a word for. Said. I think now I would like go on the feel roof to speak to the mission directly. He would say I am very very happy. Very very. Humble and when the fire Mercury the. Mission off today. We will very. Soon fly and we got a moment from our information about faith life from. My despair from where I think that we were not in the mainstream of humanity to the people controlling the life but I am here again we'll hear you. John why on earth former office. Filing function very very well you will be very sorry for the light. No I'm. Acting as though you were. In any other kind of miracle and I am. A Marine Parekh Oh I'm somewhere on time my. Fellow my film you are a very famous fencing film are. Thorough impressions. I'd like to take five years well but more detail all of the various themes who are involved in this operation here today first thing thank you darling from watching the order of the flame to track down the face for I have kept it up while we're waiting for our. Well let me write it they are finally getting it right. Also like the paper with the bunker fame old prepared he got right I want to vote for you thought it was. Actually perfect. Like a paper over the weatherman on Doc Well we finally got the weather right. All in favor with our responsible for the planning. For that month to month and a recovery game is not easy to get out there there today was a procedure where they were I am sure I want to make them do very important elements of the game I do I hope all over the world will hold. The line for me before I relinquish my firearm here I'm like a sail order from here or walk away and resent his operation. Always been horrific in the end they make and they never give in. Any indication of getting Ronald would make the right good faith is and while I'm still lying. To serve on a large amount of credit for oil it seemed to gather of training at the very thing where the. First draft and write those wonderful people and now I'm like whoa hey I'm. Worried. About I don't want to write. A lot. And I think I'm going into any of the real details of the flight today I think like talk about a few of them because. The old we did accomplish. We not only put an American man face. We showed a very definitely I want a man can work. We had numerous problems along the way that I'm sure will relate to you and we're not at a man of war if I could not offer you a full well. Surely would not have gone through all that. There were times where the pilot did take over. So they automatically from the control of their automatic control controlled the capsule quite well from off the flight. Who's reassuring one. Instrument from questions that I want to come back in an hour. And. Pointed out John sure did a beautiful job today I watched many Earth Hour did work and all the good you know about a job anywhere John when did. I think one point that might be of concern for that matter. Why we left the record on. During reentry. This is quite simple. I think I. Remember the little boy where all the microphone with all the realize. All the microphone. Were given an indication. That they each feel with separated. From the capsule as it does the landing I think most of you familiar with the landing but whether he'll drop down from the Capitol. Where that indicates. That this had occurred but we also know that the retro pack and it. Would hold the. Fuel in place to fire danger. Now on the other hand. As I thought it could have been just the following in the case of Michael on the other hand we could have had a real a go. Which had indeed fired that. Which would have that which would have it then disengage the heat shield from the capital. The every entry with the shield attack would have been a good parent. So I try. To retain the rational facts. After firing. Take advantage of the straps of the retro back. To home with the chill in place until we had enough ergonomic force on the possibility of the children all. I don't know if this is completely clear but the problem we will face first we thought we were much better off something it was a retro pack on knowing that sooner or later it would indeed the scaffolding that would melt away but we also know that. It was not known to wait for the fish that was sufficient. The holy place. I think and I say I think. You might want to confirm of. Russians. Actually had a false indication. And that they did not release from the capsule until after main parachute deployment as it would be expected to know about we did not know that. At the time that we got in the problem. At the time that we had this indication and had to perform reentry some of the reason for that this doesn't mean that it's interrupted the capsule sequence and don't have to take over. During re-entry it's. A job. I don't know I'm going to name a time. In a little emotional nothing. Right now like a school. Athlete or. After following through the mission today it's things like the launch happened a long time ago. On many things happen. For a perfectly beautiful shot as all of you. Were Here. At the Kate's. But more important. From a scientific and technical point of. View. That monitored the launch. Control. Steps. Of the men. In the atmosphere in and out of the atmosphere in a direct. Line on a free flights. We did have one. At about one hundred fifty seconds in the here and Bob in the little bit I know very well that. It was the. Fact he was going to. Start. At around one hundred fifty six Anyway there was seem like a very low. But I feel that this was the day some of the point if you just didn't happen it was planned to me three years ago by the people in the airport and our contract you know dynamic rocket science going to let me run for. That future me about a hundred things. The way the lightning the plot from the list to the hour when the lot of them are on the chart just the plan. In there I mean the end of the primary I'm going to. Show you continuing. We plan for this type of an operation over three years ago we set up the procedures we've selected that basically. Select company for the missile and we shall be professionally relieved or accept them probably for a. Week demanded it with a girl you would say on that flight so that it would be extremely very I feel certain that it was this tremendous effort by all of the people responsible for the future operation for the same success they certainly. Proud of every one of our people that we face in this very. Network. Like to turn from the mechanic and say hey to something that separates said I think as I started putting my notes together they said it was the day it was all done because of two things as far as our point of view first of all he flew as far as we can see from the data obtained completely normal. As normal as can be and even more normal I think the most effective flight. In addition there we had a real bonanza by getting good data from our sensors that were two to John and also to the environmental system which would give us a good correlation with how the spacecraft in an environment were working. Certainly we were able to in the early look data and reports coming in from the station follow along with the proposed flight plan where the test that we had put on to try to get out some of the questions of the heat off problem and at least in the early very early look at the birds if John had no difficulty with these and the reports coming from the station. And also the boy oh boy checks coming with John and we asked him Aquarium about it was very complimentary of the fact that I didn't pay him a bit. I must admit the colorations were very nominal during mine and we were quite pleased to hear John talking right through the boat crew vehicle and Sicko. He was completely in command throughout the entire thing as far as listening to him report. And I also say that he kept the human. Very well very refreshing around the network. Thank you if you have questions please address them to food. And await the arrival of a microphone or several will save us from repeating. Again when you hear now for he a national public relations spokesman he will handle the questions and answers during a news conference. The Russian. Morning. Was very difficult to answer because the friends of the island several months the. Time to go. Forward to marry him though they may lie. I think it was. Greater in your view. From the brown. Family Day and the Saturn they go. To London then. To determine whether we are. In their. Right. Whether we in fact it was. We have. Known or really a man on the earth we did. Hear. From a farmer. More. What. Were they were her yeah. The crazy. Picture taking off. Like they did the one thing he carried out was. So well that rolled. Over on this during the fight where there were a series. Which got out. And drinking many of these were made so that they would be repeated with the laughing segment if you're. Allowing him to cry Oh. I feel that and also some of the goofy. But I mean look with faith as a way of finding out whether it be that. Someone would be the problem with food we thought we also programmed the same with the same very adeptly the scheduling of motion which would normally get out the inner ear as a trigger mechanism letting off the noise in the. Feet off. During the first two were he was able to follow the program very closely during the third orbit he had to defer some of the day with the work it was humiliating for him to do on the automatic so we thought this is not a real lot because he obviously with the memory the performance. For the small experiment where. The bomb from. I guess we should be directed to one where I don't mean to be too far away and that but that of course any more than her. Literary are we having for order food or are no. General really pointed out. And nothing notable This is the only display for. What we're. Hearing in America and the women might make them wait a minute if they were there why do. I know you're golden. I can say that but for. The console food. Any of. Those Her little more than a verb you. Don't want to nominate. Well the Admiral given the more time details on recovery the twenty one minutes to the board the destroyers from one point. Twenty one minutes from the. No landed in the water until it was on board. The farmer forty seven over for. Forty seven and all four thanks to you Bill or. I'd like to find out who thinks one is what you wanted was a difficulty that turned the fuel white right sometime during the second orbit and the consideration at one point perhaps terminating the flight at that point secondly why did the I spent so much time trying to get out. For the story around the employer match right away. And the only part of that you. Think I understood we were having only gotten money automatically. We were doing with you on the on. Again one of them. Now coming. From. This time rather. Than Pulling me in the morning on. Board one of them out of harmony are. Very very firmly on my animal or we don't have to worry monger. Repeating the automatic assumption the manual from a fisherman of the I often wish. We did it on right. Now. We. Did not come out that. Came out by that hour after the first out here talk to John I have no. Comment. Yet and therefore I come to a fire first question for you as in the first question you go over there what I wish we you are me. Exactly. To the location combined with only thirty five Euro you or seventy five percent remaining. All wanting saying no to indicate that he was being used that system for example are not OK we consider thirty five percent being the absolute minimum. A great deal I'm right here Secondly with respect coming our council to the way. The capsule. Is not to blow. Because there is some defamation of the actual self-reproach. There for you. At all possible that he would come out. He was having all the car going out to the shop being appropriate in the interest of getting him out really sure your. Sister Heinz. You know when you gave them. Oh oh. Oh. Oh. Oh. Oh. Oh. Oh oh oh oh oh oh. Oh. Oh oh I'm going. Yeah. Because. I want I want to hear you know you very small one pound. Now I can feel dory this. Cold. Like would probably. Not worth the use of very small. It could be easily part. Of the Bergen.. Record Oh oh oh oh. Oh. Oh. Oh yeah I think the answer is no. We are fighting very carefully to go ahead for more than work required for the summer before it's like this the office for the Senate one thing I'm falling for a hard on the deal that was with Gemini and Apollo but we plan for success today and we're planning on low. Aren't they and our entire program for not one dollar a day I think would be would not be on a planet of five a run of the say that it will be it up so that if we hadn't done the day it would've been a thought that. We will we will have the further we are the wife and for the other year her partner if you're going to eat you know the white hot on the heels of that down right Mr Diamond. Mr Williams Could you indicate roughly how much for our fifteen minutes work shoulder. Fly by. Plan and how much work was on the automatic in the second part of the question the fact that the file was called. How much of the fight was automatic and how much was a manual are applied by wire and. You have been listening to a news conference by members of Project Mercury and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration discussing today's orbital flight from our very first off by astronaut John Glenn right consensus here is from all of visual The point was expense the Flint is in good shape performed well and his fight the difficulties with the space capsule it also performed well and that America has learned a great deal from the first orbital mission this is it Davis reporting from Canaveral.