On 14/09/2012 16:31, Joseph Nebus wrote:
In Jan Philips writes:

So many things were going wrong near the end of Cooper's Mercury
flight - did the flight director consider bringing him down early?

A good question. A casual reading of _This New Ocean_ and
the Mercury Chronology ---
http://history.nasa.gov/SP-4201/ch14-6.htm
http://history.nasa.gov/SP-4001/p3b.htm

--- doesn't indicate anything, but it does indicate concern over the
false .05 g indicator.

This might be the simplification of events for the sake of
narrative. It might also be that the bundling of malfunctions was
so close to the scheduled reentry time --- most of the 21st orbit was
spent working out the retrofire procedures --- that there wasn't the
chance to bring him down early except in case of immediate disaster,
so it wasn't considered. Possibly.

I don't on casual searching find a transcript of ground-to-
spacecraft transmission, thanks in part to abundant UFO nuttery that
has attached itself to Gordon Cooper.

It's in the Mercury Project Summary, Appendix F.

http://www.hq.nasa.gov/office/pao/Hi...P-45/app.f.htm

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Brian W Lawrence
Wantage
Oxfordshire