Time	Speaker	Dialogue
01 15 30.5	CT	Aurora Seven, Hawaii Com Tech. How do you read me? Over.
01 15 40	P	I am in VOX record now. I heard Hawaii calling, ha ha, Hawaii calling. I will go to transmit directly, and see if we can pick up Hawaii.
01 15 54	P	Hello, Hawaii Com Tech, Aurora Seven on HF. Loud and clear. How me?
01 16 17.5	P	Hello, Hawaii Com Tech, Hawaii Com Tech, Aurora Seven. Loud and clear. How do you read HF? Over.
01 16 32.5	P	Going now to record only while l switch back to UHF
01 17 30.5	P	Hello, Hawaii, hello, Hawaii Com Tech, Aurora Seven. Weak but readable. Co ahead
01 18 00	CT	Aurora Seven, Aurora Seven, . . . on HF, UHF. How do you read? Over.
01 18 05	P	Roger. Hawaii Com Tech. Aurora Seven reading you loud and clear. How me?
01 18 30	CT	Aurora Seven. Hawaii Com Tech. How do you read?
01 18 51.5	P	All right. My- I am at 01 19 02. Have been several times completely disoriented.1 There, I have Cassiopeia directly in the window and am yawing around for the sunrise- photographs. The sky is quite light in the east.
01 19 51	P	Excess cabin-water light came on at that time. I'll have to go back all the way down and off. Suit is-still high. The cabin-water gage is reading-plus 9, which is hard to believe.
01 20 15	P	My temperature, my body temperature doesn't feel . . . feel bad at all. My suit-yes, my suit temperature is down now, also.
01 20 32.5	P	But the steam vent temperature is-still about-70 [degrees].
01 22 03	P	I have the fireflies. Hello, Guaymas.
01 22 18	P	I have the particles. I was facing away from the sun at sunrise-and I did not see the particles-just-just yawing about-180 degrees, I was able to pick up-at this.-Stand by, I think I see more.
01 23 00	P	Yes, there was one, random motions-some even appeared to be going ahead. There's one outside. Almost like a light snowflake particle caught in an eddy. They are not glowing with their own light at this time.
01 23 32	P	It could be frost from a thruster.
01 24 01.5	P	Going to transmit to-record only, at this time.
01 24 11	P	The weightless condition is a blessing, nothing more, nothing less.
01 25 43	P	I am now photographing large cloud banks over the Pacific on a southerly direction.
01 26 08.5	P	I'm drifting slowly to retroattitude at this time.

Time	Speaker	Dialogue
01 27 22	P	Hello, Guaymas Com Tech. Aurora Seven. Loud and clear. How me?
01 27 29.5	CC	Roger. Aurora Seven, this is Guaymas Cap Com. How me? Over
01 27 33.5	P	Roger, Guaymas, loud and clear. My control mode is now fly-by-wire; gyros are caged, I'm in-maneuver is off. I'll go to automatic mode directly. My status good; the capsule status is good. The fuel is 69-69 [percent], oxygen is 88-100 [percent]. The cabin steam vent has gone to plus 10, I believe that's a bad gage reading, and suit temperature steam vent is coming down slowly, now reading 68 [degrees]. Over.
01 28 16	CC	Roger. Understand 68 [degrees]. How is your temperature comfort? Over
01 28 19	P	Roger. My body comfort is good. I am tracking now a very small particle, one isolated particle, about-there is another, very small, could be a light snowflake.
01 28 40	CC	Roger. We're reading-we're having a-a bad body temperature reading on you, 102.4 [degrees], probably erroneous.
01 28 48.5	P	I can't believe it. My suit temperature shows 60 [degrees] and I feel quite comfortable. I'm sure I would be sweating more than this if my temperature were 102 [degrees].
01 28 59.5	CC	Your suit-inlet temperature, near 61 [degrees], so it looks pretty good.
0129 04	P	Roger.
0129 06.5	CC	Roger. It looks like we have a go for the second orbit as everything appears all right for you.
01 29 13	P	Roger. I was hoping you'd say that, Gordo.
01 29 16	CC	You start to conserve your fuel a bit and maybe, perhaps use a little more of your manual fuel.
01 29 22	P	Roger. Can do.
01 29 24.5	CC	Roger, are you ready for Z and R cal?
01 29 27	P	Roger, send them
0129 28.5	CC	Z cal coming on now.
0129 31	P	And, mark, coastal passage.
01 29 35	CC	Say again.
01 29 36	P	Mark, coastal passage coming over the-Baja.
0129 41	CC	Good.
0129 43	CC	How does it look?
01 29 46	P	Half covered with clouds, and-and the other half is dry. Will you pass on-this message for me, Gordo, to all the troops at Guaymas?
01 30 05	P	Hola, amigos, felicitaciones a Mexico y especialmente a mi amigos de Guaymas. Desde el espacio exterior, su pais esta cubierto con numbes-and-es-also-se muy bello. Aqui el tiempo esta muy bueno. Buena suerte desde Auror Siete.2
01 30 33.5	CC	Roger, muchas gracias, amigo.
0130 35.5	P	Ha, ha, okay.
01 30.37.5	CC	Give us a blood pressure.
01 30 39	P	Here you go.
01 30 50	CC	Roger, do you-I'd like to pass your 2 Alpha time on to you, Scotty.
01 30 54.5	P	Roger.
01 30 56	CC	Roger, 2 Alpha time is 01 36 13, with a G.M.T. of 14 21 30. That takes into account your clock error.
01 31 08.5	P	That's 02 36 13?
01 31 12.5	CC	Roger, 01 36 13.
01 31 15.5	P	Roger, 0136 13 for 2 Alpha.
01 31 19.5	CC	For Golf, 03 00 31.
01 31 25	P	Roger, 03 00 31 for Golf.
01 31 28	CC	There's a G.m.t. on that of 15 45 48.
01 31 33.55	P	Roger. Standing by for the . . . my mark on the radar test over White Sands.
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01 31 46	P	Roger.
01 31 52.5	CC	Roger. Command roll now.
01 31 55	P	Roll now.
01 32 02	P	No, I'll have to get in a better attitude for you first, Gus. It'll mean nothing this way, I mean Coop.
01 32 10	CC	Roger.
01 32 58.5	CC	You still reading us, Scotty?
01 32 59.5	P	Roger. Loud and clear.
013302	CC	Hearing you also. Have you done your roll for the radar yet?
01 33 10.5	P	That's negative. I'm afraid I'm not going to make it, Gordo, unless I get the attitudes- down close.
01 33 21.5	CC	Roger. We're reading your attitudes all right at zero now.
01 33 26.5	P	Roger. The gyros are caged.

Time	Speaker	Dialogue
01 33 41	CC	Aurora Seven, this is Cape Cap Com on emergency voice.
01 33 44	P	Roger, Cape. Loud and clear. How me?
01 33 48	CC	Loud and clear. I'm going back to HF/UHF.
01 33 52.5	P	Roger.
01 33 55	CC	Are you ready for your 2 Bravo time?
01 33 58	P	Roger. Send 2 Bravo.
01 34 00.5	CC	01 49 30.
01 34 07	P	Roger. 01 49 30.
01 34 12.5	CC	Roger. And 2 Charlie time is nominal.
01 34 15.5	P	Okay. Stand by one.
01 34 37.5	P	Okay, Gus, my status is good; my control mode is fly-by-wire; the gyros are still caged; maneuver is off. Fuel is 62 and 68 [percent]. A little ahead on fuel consumption; fuel quantity light is on; the excess cabin-water light is on. I'll try and get auto mode here directly.
01 35 04.5	CC	Roger. Can you give us a blood pressure?
01 35 07	P	Roger. Blood pressure coming now.
01 35 13.5	CC	And after the IOS voice has dropped, will use Zanzibar in that area.
01 35 20	P	Roger. I heard IOS calling, but I couldn't raise him.
01 35 24	CC	Roger.
01 35 30	CC	Aurora Seven, use a normal balloon release.
01 35 34	P	Roger.
01 35 41	P	And are you going to give me a mark for that?
01 35 47.5	CC	Roger. On at an elapsed time of 01 37.
01 35 51	P	01 37. Roger.
01 36 00	CC	Roger. In 2 minutes, Echo will be almost directly overhead.
01 36 05	P	Roger.
01 36 08	C	Could you give us a cabin steam and suit temperature, please?
01 36 11	P	Roger. Suit steam is 69 [degrees] and cabin is plus 11. That dropped down very suddenly when the excess cabin-water light came on. I think I'm going to-increase . . . I'll try to increase suit-water flow one more time. If that doesn't work I'll drop-down-to closed and start over again.
01 36 46	CC	Aurora Seven, cut back your cabin water.
01 36 49	P	Okay. Cabin water going back. I'll start now at two. This is 20 degrees below launch value.
01 36 58	CC	Roger. I'm going to give you a Z eel.
01 37 00.5	P	Roger.
01 37 07	CC	Okay. I'm going to give you an R eel.
01 37 10	P	Be my guest
01 37 35	CC	Aurora Seven, Cap Com. Do you read?
01 37 37	P	Roger. Loud and clear.
01 37 38.5	CC	Roger. Everything looks good down here, except for your fuel usage; you better watch that a little bit.
01 37 44	P	Roger.
01 37 50	CC	Aurora Seven, have you deployed the balloon?
01 37 52	P	That is negative. Stand by.
01 38 03	P	Balloon deploy, now. The balloon is out and off. I, I see it way out, but it-I think now it is way out, and drifting steadily away. I don't see the line. I don't see that any attempt was made to inflate the thing. It's just drifting off.
01 38 38	P	I have only the rectangular shape tumbling at this point about 200 yards back, barely visible, and now wait, here is a line. That was the cover, the balloon is out.
01 39 01	CC	l Understand. The balloon is out.
01 39 02.5	P	That is Roger.
01 39 09	P	There is very little acceleration here.
01 39 17	CC	Aurora Seven, did the balloon inflate?
01 39 19	P	The balloon is partially inflated. It's not tight. I've lost it at this moment. Wait one, I'll give you a better reading shortly.
01 39 50	P	There is an oscillation beginning.
01 39 54.5	CC	This is an oscillation in the balloon?
01 39 56.5	P	Yes.
01 40 11	P	The line is still not taut. I have some pictures of the line just waving out in back. I would say we have about a one-cycle-per-minute oscillation. It's both in pitch and yaw.
01 40 38.5	CC	How many cycles per minute?
01 40 40	P	One cycle per minute, or maybe I cycle in a minute and a half.
01 41 01	P	The moon is just above the horizon at this time
01 41 17	P	I have a picture of the balloon.
01 41 25	CC	Aurora Seven, Cap Com. Repeat your last message.
01 41 28.5	P	Roger. I've got a washer to put awe,
01 41 33	CC	Roger.

Time	Speaker	Dialogue
01 41 40.5	F	Aurora Seven, Aurora Seven, this is Bermuda Flight. How do you read? Over
01 41 45	P	Roger. Bermuda Flight, reading you loud and clear.
01 41 49	F	Switch wobulator switch off.
01 41 51.5	P	Roger. Phase shifter.
01 41 54	F	Mark!
01 41 56	P	Phase shifter is off.
01 42 18	P	Phase shifter is on, now.
01 42 23.5	CC (Cape)	Aurora Seven, Cap Com. What control mode?
01 42 26.5	P	Fly-by-wire
01 42 28	CC (Cape)	Thank you.
01 43 01	F	Bermuda Flight. How do you read?
01 43 02.0	P	Hello, Bermuda Flight. Reading you loud and clear. How me?
01 43 07	F	Will you run a blood pressure, please? need you loud and clear.
01 43 10	P	Roger. Blood pressure starting now.
01 43 30	P	I have lost sight of the balloon at this minute.
01 43 34	F	Roger.
01 43 59	P	Also, Bermuda, the balloon not only oscillates in cones in pitch and yaw, it also seems to oscillate in and out toward the capsule; and sometimes the line will be taut, other times it's quite loose.
01 44 20.5	P	It's now about 50 degrees off of the flight path.
01 44 32	P	Pictures of whirls taken, just east of Bermuda, now the balloon line is tight.
01 45 27.5	P	At 01 45 30, I have turned the cabin, or the suit-water valve all the way off and back up to one.
01 47 18	P	I'm taping now the fuel quantity warning lights in preparation for the dark side I think also excess cabin water I'll tape. It's not a satisfactory lighting arrangement to

Time	Speaker	Dialogue
01 47 48	P	Hello, Canary Cap Com. Aurora Seven. Loud and clear. How me?
01 48 10.5	CC	Aurora Seven, Aurora Seven, this is Canary Cap Com. How do you read?
01 48 16	P	Hello, Canary Cap Com. Aurora Seven. Loud and clear. How me?
01 48 21	CC	Roger. You're coming into UHF range. Proceed with the short report. Over.
01 48 27	P	Roger, Canary. My status is good; the capsule status is good; my control mode is automatic; gyros normal, maneuver off. Fuel 51-68 [percent], oxygen 85-100 [percent]; my cabin steam vent temperature now is picking up and reading about 19, suit steam vent temperature still reading 70 [degrees]. I have backed it off to zero and reset it at one. Over.
01 49 09	CC	. . . cabin exhaust temperature. Over.
01 49 11.5	P	Cabin exhaust temperature is climbing back up to 19. Over.
01 49 18	CC	Roger. Have you been doing any drifting flight? Over.
01 49 23	P	That is Roger. I did quite a hit of drifting flight on the dark side over Woomera and Canton. Over.
01 49 34	CC	Roger. Did you observe any haze layers? Over.
01 49 40.5	P	Roger, I did observe haze layers but not the ones that were separated from the horizon that we expected, and that John reported. I'll keep a sharp lookout next time and try to see them after sunset. On the light side there is nothing more than the bright, iridescent blue layer, which separates the actual horizon from the deep black of space. Over.
01 50 15.5	CC	Aurora Seven, you are fading rapidly. You are fading. MCC [Mercury Control Center] is worried about your auto fuel and manual fuel consumption. They recommend that you try to conserve your fuel.
01 50 28.5	P	Roger. Tell them I am concerned also. I will try and conserve fuel.
01 50 41.5	CC	Aurora Seven, Aurora Seven, I cannot read you. Do you read Canary Cap Com? Over.
01 50 48.5	P	Roger. Canary, copied your message. Over.
01 50 52	CC	Roger. I Understand copied message regarding fuel and consumption.
01 50 56.5	P	That is Roger.
01 51 01.5	CC	Surgeon here has requested a blood-pressure transmission.
01 51 05.5	P	Blood pressure is coming your way now.
01 51 20	CC	We are receiving same at Canaries and it looks good.
01 51 24	P	Roger
01 51 41.5	CC	Canary Systems indicates all telemetry readings look good.
01 51 46.5	P	Roger. That's good to hear.
01 51 56.5	CC	Aurora Seven, do you have anything to report on your balloon test? Over.
01 52 02.5	P	Roger. The balloon is oscillating through an are of about 100 degrees. It gets out of view frequently. At this moment, it's nearly vertical. Mark a coastal passage at this time it seems to-what I'm trying to tell you is that it oscillates 180 degrees, above and below. Over
01 52 40	P	It also oscillates in and out. Sometimes the line is tight and other times it is not.
01 53 52	P	When I look over to the right side, T have the sensation that-
01 54 05.5	P	Hello.

Time	Speaker	Dialogue
01 54 15	CC	This is Kano. How do you read? Over.
01 54 17	P	Hello, Kano. Aurora Seven. Loud and clear. How me?
01 54 32.5	CC	Aurora Seven, Aurora Seven, this is Kano. How do you read? Over.
01 54 37	P	Hello Kano. Loud and clear. How me?
01 54 52	CC	Aurora Seven, Aurora Seven, this is Kano. How do you read? Over.
01 54 59	P	Kano, this is Aurora Seven. Reading you loud and clear. How me?
01 55 04	CC	Aurora Seven, Kano Cap Com. What is your status? Over.
01 55 08.5	P	Roger. My status is good; fuel reads 51 [percent] and-and 69 [percent]; oxygen is 84 [percent] and 100 [percent]; cabin pressure is holding good. All d-c and a-c power is good. The only thing of-to report regarding the flight plan is that fuel levels are lower than expected. My control mode now is ASCS. I expended my extra fuel in trying to orient after the night side. I think this is due to conflicting requirements of the flight plan. I should have taken time to orient and then work with other items. I think that by remaining in automatic, I can keep stop this excessive fuel consumption. And the balloon is sometimes visible and sometimes not visible. I haven't any idea where it is now, and there doesn't seem to-and it seems to wander with abandon back and forth, and that's all, Kano.
01 56 44	CC	Roger, Aurora Seven. Will you give us a blood-pressure check again-. Over.
01 56 49	P	Roger. Blood pressure is on the air.
01 57 01	CC	Aurora Seven, how are you feeling? Your body temperature is up somewhat. How do you feel? Over.
01 57 07.5	P	Roger. I feel fine. Last time around I-someone told me it was 102 [degrees]. I don't feel, you know, like I'm that hot. Cabin temperature is 101 [degrees]. I'm reading 101 [degrees], and the suit temperature indicates 74 [degrees].
01 57 38.5	CC	Are you perspiring any?
01 57 41.5	P	Slightly, on my forehead.
01 57 50	P	Since turning down the suit water valve, the suit steam vent temperature has climbed slightly-am increasing from one to two at this time. This should bring it down. The cabin steam vent temperature has built back up to 40 [degrees].
01 58 27.5	CC	Roger, Aurora Seven, everything looks okay now. We seem to have lost the body temperature readings from previous stations. We are reading 102 [degrees] right now, but as long as you feel okay right now.
01 58 42	P	Roger, I feel fine.
01 58 46	CC	Can you see anything of the Gulf of Guinea?
01 58 49.5	P	Roger. I just-just passed the coastline, and I am over a solid cloud cover at this time
01 59 05	CC	Roger, Aurora Seven. Would you care to send a greeting to the people of Nigeria?
01 59 09	P	Roger, please send my greetings and best wishes of me and my countrymen to all Africans. Over.
01 59 21	CC	Roger. Thank you very much. I'm sure it will be appreciated. Over.
01 59 24.5	P	Roger.
01 59 54 5	CC	Aurora Seven, Kano. Are we still in contact? Over.
01 59 57.5	P	Say again, Kano.
01 59 59	CC	Roger. Would you repeat in a few words why you thought the fuel usage was great? Over.
02 00 06	P	I expended it on-by manual and fly-by-wire thruster operation on the dark side, and just approaching sunrise. I think that I can cut down the fuel consumption considerably on the second and third orbits. Over.
02 00 32	CC	Roger. Understand. Over.
02 00 43.5	CC	Have you started your night adaptation? Over.
02 00 46	P	Roger.
02 01 08	CC	Aurora Seven, Kano. Just for your own information, the 250 inverter is on 180 degrees right now. Over.
02 01 18	P	Say again, please
02 01 21	CC	....Over.
02 02 43.5	P	At this time, oh-oh, this doggone food bag is a problem.
02 03 00	P	Actually, the food hag is not a problem, the food inside it is. It's crumbled. I dare not open the bag for fear the crumbs will get all through the capsule.
02 03 43	P	Things are very quiet.

² Translation: Hello, friends, greetings to Mexico and especially to my friends of Guaymas. From outer space, your country is covered with clouds and is very beautiful. Here the weather is very good. Good luck from Aurora Seven.