06 20 40	CC	...Cape Com Tech. How do you read?
06 20 44	CC	How do you read Auto One?
06 20 48	CC	Roger
06 20 53	CT [?]	Did you call Com Tech?
06 20 55	CC [?]	...
06 21 03	CC [Auto 1]	Sigma Seven. Auto one. Do you read Cap Com?
06 21 05	P	That's affirm. What's your problem?
06 21 15	CC [Auto 1]	Sigma Seven, Sigma Seven, this is Auto One. Can you read Cape Com Tech?
06 21 19	P	That's affirmative. For God sakes.
06 21 32	Warfare1	Auto One. Warfare. Do you read me?
06 21 34	CC [Auto 1]	Roger. Auto One. Reading Warfare loud and clear.
06 21 38	CC	Roger. Go bravo then.
06 21 41	CC [Auto 1]	Roger. Bravo.
06 21 46	CC	Auto Two Bravo.
06 21 58	?	Mercury will pick it up.
06 22 10	Warfare	Auto Two. Warfare. Do you read?
06 22 12	CC [Auto 2]	Auto Two reads Warfare.
06 22 14	Warfare	Roger. Give Sigma Seven a call.
06 22 16	CC [Auto 2]	Sigma Seven. Auto Two. Do you read?
06 22 18	P	This is Sigma Seven. I read you. What do you want?
06 22 22	CC [Auto 2]	Sigma Seven. Auto Two. Do you read?
06 22 31	CC	Hello Sigma Seven. Cape Cap Tech. How do you copy?
06 22 34	P	I copy you loud and clear, Murph.
06 22 36	CC	Roger. Stand by for Cape, please.
06 22 38	P	Okay.
06 22 45	CC	Sigma Seven. Cap Com. How do you read now?
06 22 48	P	Read you loud and clear, Deke. How me?
06 22 50	CC	Much better. Got you through Grand Turk relay now.
06 22 53	P	Oh! How 'bout that. I'm now in auto reentry mode. Over.
06 23 03	CC	Understand. Auto retro mode.
06 23 05	P	Negative. Auto reentry mode.
06 23 09	CC	Roger. Understand. Reentry.
06 23 11	P	Roger. And she looks like she's really well lined up.
06 23 16	CC [Auto 1]	Sigma Seven, Sigma Seven. Auto One. How do you read?
06 23 26	CC [Auto 1]	...
06 23 36	CC	Sigma Seven, Sigma Seven. Auto One. How do you read?
06 23 41	CC [Auto 1]	Sigma Seven, Sigma Seven. Auto One. How do you read?
06 23 59	CC [Auto 1]	Sigma Seven, Sigma Seven. Auto One. How do you read?
06 24 06	P	Auto One, this is Sigma Seven. I read you. How do you read me? Over.
06 24 15	P	This is Sigma Seven on VOX record only. I have reestablished auto mode in normal with no high thruster action. At this point I have 85 percent auto, 90 percent manual. And I feel, now that I am on ASCS, I can do some experiments where before I was not able to. I will now pitch the capsule down on fly-by-wire low. First I will check to see- if I turn on my beacons, nobody down here can get to me on those. At 6 hours and 25 minutes- if anybody has a beacon in South America they deserve to hear it. Beacons are on, for a good 3 amps. Opening visor to wipe off chin, and I think I'll take a drink of water.
06 26 22	P	Closing visor. Okay. Let's take a look and see where we are. At this point we made a dosimeter check. I will pitch down on fly-by-wire to reentry attitude. Now let' give it a manual proportional go this time.
06 27 37	P	In manual proportional, with manual lever pulled out, and having selected rate command I'm slowly but surely coming into retroattitude. All axes are working very well Setting up in roll. Getting yaw rates, pow, pow. And I want this to count-I'm going to go back to fly by wire low.
-- -- --	P	That was stupid. Now we go to fly-by-wire low. I had a case of double authority an really flotched it. But better conserve our fuel. It's much too easy to get into double authority, even with the tremendous logic you have working on all these systems. The pitch is in; yaw is in; selecting reentry attitude; roll is in; going to ASCS, reentry now. And she's in.
06 29 58	P	Okay. I think we can change back, and get some weather bureau pictures if it's possible. Shoot up the rest-the rest of these, just lightly. That's A 10 at 6+30 hours, and 11 is coming up, and 6+30 hours with a cloud bank off to the left. Okay. I'll get the plate back on, and save this at A. Take the plate back out again, zap. Okay. That wound up, A 12 to go.
06 31 23	P	The capsule at this point is, at 6 hours and 31 minutes, it is under chimp configuration. I've used manual proportional to a great degree. I now have 79 [percent] in manual [fuel] and 81 [percent] auto. Let's see how we stand. Ah, 81, 80 auto, 71 manual.
06 32 25	P	I fouled up, oh shucks.
06 33 07	P	That's clever. Weather bureau back is finally out. First shot not worth using, so I'll change that. Okay. We got slider out. Weather filter in, if I can get it. This side toward lens. There, we got a filter in. I'm going to shoot at ASA 64.
06 34 42	P	Take a light value at 06 35, and that light value is 13 for 64 ASA. Very good. Fairly bright.... I'll give her 13, and we'll punch off a couple quickies because of the first bad one. First shot taken at 6 35 25.
06 35 47	P	Second shot 6 35 45.
06 36 47	P	Capsule is in perfect attitude. Ideal shots for weather bureau. Think I even put on finder at this time. Shooting black and white of the clouds.

06 37 01	P	In the white. Ready to shoot at 6-06 37 07. That was an oblique. Shot number 3. I'll take shot number 4 almost as straight down as I can sight. Beyond a little hit of shadow as we approach sunset. Okay, that was 6 37 34.
-- -- --	P	That's capsule elapsed time. At 6 38 we will copy the manual intermediate report and I can do that at this time.
06 38 48	P	Okay, at 6 hours and 35 minutes we are at 81 [percent auto fuel] 79 [percent manual fuel]....cabin 90 [degrees]... suit 63 [degrees]....Dome 71 [degrees].
06 40 25	P	We're now at 6 40. Going to map two.
06 41 43	P	At this point, I made a complete electrical cheek. All electrical systems are green. The amps are about 19 amps. This is very logical after we've been inserted. The load has been diving over release of relays at Tr+5.
06 42 04	P	All the equipment is in good order. Coming up over IOS for 6+50, in the night, and this time I want to go down the star charts to cheek this bear out. That is why I am ASCS
06 42 27	P	Had the fun with experimenting and now will get the fun of being ready for reentry at any time. Okay. Let's see-we got IOS at 6 40. 6 40.... same as 0 52.
06 44 03	P	There is a nice interesting horizon. The sun is off to the left about-oh I'd say 40 degrees. There's a dark line of the surface of the earth, orange at the clouds-a light yellow, a light white and a blue band. A very light blue and I have the planet Mercury in sight at this point. Before the sun has set. And it's in the proper position.
06 44 37	P	Describing the blue band. There's a relatively dark blue band right at the surface of the earth and a light blue band, and another dark blue band, and a large white band which is the airglow, and then a deep black one and sorta goes from a grayish blue into a dense black. Almost looks like underneath a rain cloud as far as the transition from the blue band to the total darkness. And I'll bring up my fingertip lights. And at 06 45 52 Mercury is right on the horizon. Arcturus should be in view, but I guess we can't get her.
06 45 45	P	Okay, I [06 45 46]T see Mercury going through the- airglow. We'll see if she holds up. When I said "I see" that was the beginning of it. MARK, [06 46 10]T the first change of color, which is now a light blue. And it's still visible. MARK, [06 46 12]T a dark blue. Visible MARK, [06 46 16]T into the yellow orange of the surface of the Earth. This was-Mercury, dropping over the horizon. I should be picking up the Moon and Venus fairly soon. At 6 46-and at 6 48 I'm over IOS.
06 49 12	P	Okay, it looks like we are getting some lighted areas over the southern tip of Africa. I definitely have a city in sight, and this is Sigma Seven. On transmit, I've had on VOX record only. I definitely have a city in sight in Africa. It first showed up at 06 49 30 seconds. The lights come up very clear. I'm in retroattitude at this point to give a mark on my position, and the moon is on my flight path for yaw reference.
06 50 07	P	I'll bet you any money that city on my left was Port Elizabeth.

¹ Relay aircraft communicator at Cape Canaveral.