2 minutes to launch
 

Neil:	Platform internal, ventral is armed.
NASA 1:	What is your cabin source, Neil?
Neil:	3500 on cabin source, I'm on lower antenna and X-15 radio, how do you read?
NASA 1:	Roger, read you 5 square.
Neil:	Rog. No peeling points, good.
B-52:	We're rolling out on the final heading now with a minute and 20 seconds to go.
Neil:	Okay.
NASA 1:	Your sources looking good 008?
Neil:	Bleeds all look OK, tanks are 49 on both tanks.
B-52:	1 minute.
Neil:	Rog, 1 minute. I got one preheat coming on, on the upper.
B-52:	50 seconds.
Neil:	Master's on.
B-52:	40 seconds, Neil.
Neil:	Rog, both primes are on.
B-52:	One has blossomed, prime.
Neil:	OK, I got 40° on #l APU bearing and 105° on #2.
B-52:	25 seconds and master switch is on, Neil.
Neil:	Rog, launch light coming on.
B-52:	20 seconds, launch light is on, 15, 10, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1 launch.
Chase:	OK, bottom 3 is not lit, now it is.
Neil:	OK, Bob.
Chase:	All 8 are lit and you look very good.
Neil:	Roger, got 8° on the ball.
NASA 1:	Neil, on upper #l, we have no indication.
Neil:	Roger, I got it. I got no buffet up to 13°.
NASA 1:	What was your run at that altitude?
B-52:	39
Neil:	OK, I'm indicating about 365 on the bottom, which is about what I expected.
NASA 1:	Now you're bragging.
Neil:	OK, I'm holding it in 8°.
NASA 1:	Your course is looking good ,Neil.
Neil:	OK. 41,500 pushover at the burn ...... equals O amperage.
NASA 1:	We have you at 47, Neil.
Neil:	OK, that's about right, I got 44.
NASA 1:	Neil, swing it about 5° to the left.
Neil:	OK, calibrate, I got 45.5 on pressure and 53,000 on inertial. Want to give me a readout?
NASA 1:	Roger, 395.
Neil:	OK, roll and yaw, and a pulse.
NASA 1:	We have you dropping a little in altitude now, and 10 seconds to turn.
Neil:	And 53 inertial.
NASA 1:	5 seconds to turn, Neil.
Neil:	5 to turn .......... SAS is all reset.
NASA 1:	Looking good.
Neil:	OK, pitch out, pitch pulse and amp speed, pulse is 7 and amp speed is ......
NASA 1:	Roger.
Neil:	Control off, roll pulse.
NASA 1:	And your turn is looking very good.
Neil:	OK, yaw and a yaw pulse. I got 53 inertial. 46 on pressure.
NASA 1:	We have you at 50 even.
Neil:	SAS and a calibrate. OK, sideslip.
Chase:	Looks like 48,000 to me, Neil.
Neil:	......... pitch come up.
NASA 1:	We got you at 49, Neil, and you're just in the inside of your turn.
Neil:	OK.
Neil:	Pitch is looking pretty good.
Neil:	I'm getting a burnout.
NASA 1:	We have you about 50,000 on the button, Neil.
Neil:	Pitch pulse 14, brakes out .......... brakes coming in.
NASA 1:	Start your turn in Neil.
Neil:	.......... I'm starting my turn now, Jack.
Chase:	What's your indicating speed?
Neil:	OK, I got about 240 indicated, 50,000 inertial, little buffet at 230, master and all the chambers are on, ready to go to jettison when you're ready, Bob.
Chase:	Yes, anytime..
Neil:	OK, we'll skip that 4004 pitch pulse and I'll try to setup on about 250 indicated on the way back.
Chase:	What is your indicated speed?
Neil:	I got 230 now, Bob.
Chase:	You can jettison whenever you want to.
Neil:	Go to jettison.
NASA 1:	Neil, when you straighten out, you can push a test on that hot nose.
Neil:	Rog, push to test now.
Chase:	You said you want to jettison?
Neil:	Yes I did, Bob.
Chase:	I haven't seen anything.
Neil:	OK, I can cycle it once.
Chase:	Have you seen anything, Pete, that I might have missed on the turn?
Chase:	Negative, I was on a different angle, I don't think he has gotten rid of anything yet.
......:	.......... Chase 1, going to jettison.
Neil:	OK, I'm still on the jettison position, got about 255 now and a 10° bank, master and chamber switches are off.
NASA 1:	Roger, we have no indication that you're jettisoning down here.
Neil:	OK, I got O fuel indicated on my quantity.
NASA 1:	Roger, And your pass is looking very good.
Chase:	I'm having a hard time slowing up here, but I'll get it, a compass stick a little more.
Neil:	OK, I got 250 indicated now, Bob.
Chase:	OK, I got 255 and I get a very slight overtake, wait a second and I'll get in formation with you.
NASA 1:	Neil, check your jettison test switches.
Neil:	Rog.
Chase:	There they go, now you got it. OK, I'm reading 252 knots, 27,000 now.
Neil:	OK, I got 250 right now too.
NASA 1:	We've got you 27 radar, Neil.
Neil:	OK, couldn't hold this speed around the turn, I'm going to do a pushdown-pullup now, Bob.
Chase:	Yes, go ahead. 258.
Neil:	OK, I got 250.
NASA 1:	Neil, could you give us inertial height?
Neil:	OK, inertial height still stuck at 53,000 about 54 now.
NASA 1:	Roger.
Neil:	Prime source scale in the up direction.
Chase:	260 at 20,000 feet now.
Neil:	Rog, I still got 250, going to pressurize.
NASA 1:	Roger, you say your speed brakes are in, is that correct?
Chase:	17,000 we passed through, I'm reading now 270.
Neil:	OK, I got 260.
Chase:	Coming pretty close on your right here, Bob.
Chase:	OK .......... helped a little bit when he launched the jettison though. Now I'm at 280.
Neil:	OK, I got 275.
Chase:	Now 290.
Neil:	OK, I got 285.
Chase:	Roger, 9500 and 295.
Neil:	OK, Bob. .......... little brakes.
Chase:	OK, you got brakes, 3010 and I'm going to go by you.
Neil:	OK, say when.
Chase:	Please standby, jettison on the count - 3, 2, 1 - go.
Neil:	Release.
Chase:	It's gone. Read 280, you're still up there about 60 feet, flaps coming down, there's the skids, gear, brake .......... that's nice.
Neil:	And right stick, right rudder, feels pretty noisy out here. Slow deflection.
NASA 1:	Any ice out there, Neil?
Neil:	No I didn't see any as I went by, but it sure felt like it.
NASA 1:	Real nice flight. Boy!
Neil:	OK, ready for flaps to come up, speed brakes out.
	Landing