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...mouth. Lip and tongue motions might do the job, but there is not much room in a space helmet, and extra equipment placed there would probably interfere with necessary speech over the radio. And the Honeywell men had a strong hunch that most astronauts would object to apparatus hitched to their lips or tongue...
...Ying's apparatus, located in the New Engineering Sciences Laboratory on Oxford Street, consists simply of a platform surrounded by a wire window screen ten feet high, eight feet in diameter. Ying is the first to use a rotating screen, which gives a symmetrical distribution to the air currents. He places one or more cans of acetone in the center of the platform and ignites the fuel. When the screen revolves slowly, the draft whips the acetone fires into a whirl up to 18 feet high--only two feet lower than the ceiling of the building. (The scale attained...
...space-suit plans call for exchangeable equipment: a massive propulsive backpack for use in weightless space, and lighter suits emphasizing oxygen and cooling apparatus for exploring the moon. These suits have not reached the rigorous testing stage, in which men will wear them in a vacuum chamber under the glare of simulated space radiation. Less ambitious suits for emerging from Gemini capsules are farther advanced. Like the suit worn by Leonov. they will carry their own oxygen and cooling equipment and also trail an umbilical cord as an extra safety measure. They are designed to support life in a vacuum...
...C.R.A. also maintains "a large and expanding" radio network, uses its agents to run coded messages-either written or memorized-to and from Hanoi. Inevitable conclusion: Hanoi has the apparatus at hand to step up the pace of the war at short notice, or to call it off if it wants...
...race for this prize, the U.S. system, pioneered by Radio Corp. of America, has one important advantage: it is time-tested, while the others contain experimental elements. The U.S. has had an eleven-year global monopoly on color TV, and both Canada and Japan use American apparatus. The U.S.'s competitors point out that the three systems are very similar; only 5% of the parts are different, and on that the battle hinges...