11 minutes to launch
 

McKay:	Precool switch off.
B-52:	10 minutes, heading 352°.
McKay:	APU cooling switch normal.
Russel:	LN2 off.
McKay:	Both blowers BLN2. Pressure cooling on. 45 on inertial altitude, 800 fps on velocity, zero on H dot.
Russel:	I'm reading 811 on velocity.
McKay:	Cabin source 3100.
NASA 1:	Russell, LN2 off?
Russel:	LN2 is off.
NASA 1:	Rog.
B-52:	9 minutes.
McKay:	9 minutes, helium shutoff valve open. Coming on #2 APU.
NASA 1:	008, come right 1°.
B-52:	539°. (?)
Chase:	#2 looks started.
McKay:	Pressure coming up, #1.
Chase:	#1 looking good.
McKay:	Generators. Engine reset. 3000 on hydraulic ...... Flaps coming down, Don.
Chase:	Rog.
B-52:	8 minutes, starting turn.
Chase:	Flaps coming down.
McKay:	Going up.
NASA 1:	Rog, start turn at 8.
McKay:	Mixing chamber oscillating on #1 and #2 is -40. a is +2 and b is reading 2° left.
NASA 1:	Rog.
Chase:	All trims look good.
McKay:	Thank you. Aux cabin pressure switch on.
B-52:	7 minutes.
McKay:	7 minutes. Aux cabin switch is on. Platform to internal. Fire extinguisher auto. Alternate SAS armed.
NASA 1:	Roger.
Russel:	Lube oil temp 37°.
McKay:	Completed SAS check. Hi-lo. Alternate SAS is armed.
B-52:	6 minutes.
McKay:	6 minutes. SAS check is completed.
NASA 1:	Roger.
McKay:	Blood pressure is on. Hi-lo-hi gain, Bob. Zero on stabilizer.
NASA 1:	Roger. Chase 1, if you're in position, you can give a horizontal stabilizer check.
B-52:	5 minutes.
McKay:	5 minutes.
Russel:	Lox topoff is complete.
McKay:	2500 on oxygen. On X-15 oxygen. Cabin altitude 3600.
NASA 1:	Roger.
B-52:	NASA 1, are you going to call 4 minutes?
NASA 1:	Roger.
McKay:	Did you verify topoff, Jack?
Russel:	Lox topoff is complete.
McKay:	OK, going to pressurize, data coming on.
NASA 1:	Roll out on heading 172. Affirm, I will call 4 minutes in about 10 seconds.
B-52:	172°.
Russel:	Platform in specs.
NASA 1:	Roger understand, 4 minutes now.
McKay:	Roger, 4. Data off. 2 jettison switches jettison. 50 on Lox and 44 on ammonia. How do you read?
NASA 1:	Read you loud and clear.
Chase:	.......... check.
McKay:	Roger, Don. Zero on horizontal stabilizer,
Chase:	Affirm, you're trim.
McKay:	Intercom off. How do you read X-15 radio, Bob?
NASA 1:	Read you loud and clear, how me Jack?
McKay:	5 square. Inertial velocity is reading 20. Altitude is 45,000.
NASA 1:	Very good.
McKay:	Attitudes looking good. APU bearing temps, 100 on #1 and #2.
B-52:	3 minutes.
McKay:	3 minutes.
NASA 1:	How's your cabin source, Jack?
McKay:	Cabin source went down to 2700.
NASA 1:	Roger.
McKay:	It's still going down, Bob, what do you read?
NASA 1:	2650 right now.
McKay:	Appears to be going down pretty fast.
NASA 1:	Rog, what's your Fox?
McKay:	Fox is 2750. Reading 26 on cabin source.
NASA 1:	Roger.
B-52:	Just passed 2 minutes, 5 seconds ago.
McKay:	2 minutes, data on.
NASA 1:	Come right 1°, Fitz.
B-52:	Roger. Want us to come back to launch at 1 minute?
NASA 1:	Affirm.
McKay:	Tape on. Calibrate. Test ball nose. a is 2°, b is 2° left. 3550 on cabin source.
NASA 1:	Roger.
McKay:	Reading about 64 on Lox tank, just over the green.
B-52:	1 minute.
NASA 1:	1 minute now.
McKay:	How's everything looking, OK?
NASA 1:	We're going to be, low limit on cabin is 25.
McKay:	1 minute. Going to prime. Igniter ready light. Precool. Igniter idle. Everything looking OK up here, Bob.
NASA 1:	OK.
McKay:	How do you read me, Bob?
NASA 1:	Read you loud and clear, Jack.
McKay:	OK. Pump. Got a malfunction. Igniter ready light went out, Bob.
NASA 1:	Roger.
McKay:	Reset. Prime. Pump. Manifolds OK. 3, 2, 1, drop!
Chase:	Good light.
NASA 1:	Everything looking real good, Jack, angle of attack real good. Hold your angle of attack up there, Jack.
McKay:	Coming up.
NASA 1:	Roger. If you can, give us about - that's a good heading, good heading now. Coming up on theta. Track and profile looking real good, Jack. Coming up on speed brakes. Speed brakes now. Track and profile real good. Going just little bit high now. Coming up on shutdown. 79, 80, 81. Speed brakes in. Just little bit high, we're showing 100,000. OK, there's peak and come up on your a. a is looking real good. Track is real good.
McKay:	There's 5°.
NASA 1:	Roger. Angle of attack looks good. Just back through 100,000 feet now.
McKay:	96.
NASA 1:	Roger. Watch your rate of descent and you should be coming up on 10° now. Real good profile, hold your 10° up there. Just a little high on angle of attack.
McKay:	Little buffeting.
NASA 1:	Rog. Coming up on ASAS off, Jack. Profile is real good. Just about coming level now. We have you about 4000. Should be level again, that's looking real good, Jack.
McKay:	Pitch oscillation.
NASA 1:	Roger.
McKay:	Pitch.
NASA 1:	Track and profile real good, Jack. Good oscillation. Just went by 50 miles, Jack. Coming up on speed brakes out point. Whenever you're ready.
McKay:	All I can see .......... cause the .......... here.
NASA 1:	Track looking good, you're little bit east of track, and we'll turn you just little bit early, you're coming up on Cuddeback. You can go to your Star Tracker experiment now. You can turn 191 and you're inside Cuddeback.
McKay:	Leave speed brakes out.
NASA 1:	OK, speed brakes in, Jack.
McKay:	Roger.
NASA 1:	Have you 2000, 20 miles north. Track is real good, energy is good. Should be on 191.
McKay:	Star Tracker on now.
NASA 1:	Very good. Base is straight ahead. 14 miles. Doing about 18 now.
McKay:	OK, Star Tracker off.
NASA 1:	You're 10 miles north. Chase, you can call jettison any time.
Chase 4:	Tally ho, jettison any time, Jack.
McKay:	Rog, going jettison.
NASA 1:	5 miles north.
McKay:	Start down hill track.
NASA 1:	Rog, showing you about 52,000, 50,000 now.
McKay:	OK, Joe, I'm going to take it out to the west a little and snake back in.
Chase:	Rog, I got you, Jack.
McKay:	OK, getting slight pause at 1.3 at 50,000 feet. 500 "q." .......... 45 indicated.
NASA 1:	Roger, we have you about 40,000.
McKay:	Roger, 45 on inertial. Coming subsonic.
NASA 1:	Stop jettisoning on peroxide?
McKay:	Stopped jettisoning on peroxide. Slight buffet going subsonic.
NASA 1:	Roger.
Chase:	30,000, Jack.
McKay:	Go circuit breakers to land. Slight nibbling here, going transonic.
NASA 1:	Roger.
Chase:	20,000.
McKay:	20,000?
Chase:	Affirm.
NASA 1:	Like to have you land on the center or east runway.
McKay:	Roger.
Chase:	300 - 295 now, Jack. 18,000.
NASA 1:	Engine master off.
McKay:	Coming off.
Chase:	270 now. 15,000 and 275.
McKay:	Altitude, Joe?
Chase:	12,000, 11,000 now. 340, 350, 8,000, 350, 380, 340.
McKay:	Flaps.
Chase:	Rog, flaps are down. 310, 300. Gear is down. 2, 3 good ones. 5 feet, 2, 1, you're on, Jack.
McKay:	"And away we go!" Ball heading 153. Altitude 20,000. 500 on inertial. 25 on H dot. X-15 oxygen 1800. Hydraulic pressures, 2400. APU tanks, #1 is 26 and #2 is 28. APU bearing temps, #1 and #2 are 80. Source pressures are 26 and 28. Cabin source is 1400. Zero on Star Tracker.