Word: astro
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Gentlemen," brffsks the general, "we are sending a man around the moon-this week! I'm asking for volunteers." The astronaughts turn pale, drop their eyes, examine their nails, twiddle their fingers, fiddle with buttons, brush their sleeves, blow their noses. All at once an astro-chimp, who happens to be standing by, grabs a fork and playfully jabs one of these reluctant Shepards of kingdom come (Tom Tryon) in the behind. "Yeeee-ooww!" he squalls. "That's our man!" the general bawls...
...carbon dioxide and water vapor, and it also talked-feeding the recorded voice of NASA Communications Engineer Howard Kyle into a microphone to test the Mercury communication system. Out of a porthole and periscope peered two cameras. Special instruments recorded the assorted stimuli that would have assaulted a human astro naut: vicious vibration and gut-wrenching G forces. Automatic apparatus controlled the capsule's flight and descent to earth, just as it would have if a human had been on board...
...honoring "the world's outstanding pilot" predictably went to a team of X-15 jockeys - Test Pilots A. Scott Crossfield of North American Aviation, Joseph A. Walker of the NASA and Air Force Major Robert M. White -the 1961 Collier Trophy "for the greatest achievement in aeronautics or astro nautics in the U.S." fell to a currently sub-sea-level Naval aviator who has been deskbound in Washington since 1955. The Collier winner: Vice Admiral William F. Raborn Jr., relentless ramrod of project Polaris...
...valuable information about the strength of the heart's thrust and about its subtle subbeats, thus disclosing how healthy the heart is. Inventive minds have been trying for more than half a century to devise an instrument that would yield reliable data. In New York City last week, Astro-Space Laboratories, Inc. demonstrated the latest ballistocardiograph,* which was developed with the aid of missilemen...
...Astro-Spacemen decided that the patient could be floated much more delicately than that. In the first place, the weight of the board must be figured with the patient's, so the less that has to be added the better. The instrument makers hit upon an oversized bedboard made of an aluminum honeycomb, which weighs only 7 Ibs. To float patient and bedboard, they chose an air bearing of a type originally designed for instruments in missiles...