Word: astronauts
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...does not go behind-the-scenes on 2001, despite advertising promises to the contrary. The Clarke-Kubrick collaboration was fully described in Lost Worlds of 2001. As a result, the only attention paid to the landmark film comes in the form of Clarke's slightly defensive explanation of how astronaut David Bowman managed to survive in a vacuum for several seconds while re-entering his space ship. Clarke cites experiments on animals in vacuum chambers in an effort to disprove the old sci-fi truism that an astronaut would explode instantly in the vacuum of space. The book scintillates with...
...left, I threw away all my uniforms. I was sick of the academy." After he lost a federal court suit charging that the honor code was unconstitutional, he "floundered a lot" until he entered Arizona State University last spring. Then Eastern Air Lines Chairman Frank Borman, the former astronaut and old West Pointer ('50) who headed the commission that probed the scandal, wrote encouraging him to go back. "I knew I wouldn't be at peace with myself until I finished," says Ringgold...
...corporate blow for economy-and togetherness. This week Eastern Air Lines, the aggressive carrier headed by ex-Astronaut Frank Borman, inaugurates a bargain fare that brings the concept of the fixed-price, go-anywhere Eurailpass to U.S. air travel. For no more than $323, a passenger can buy an "Unlimited Mileage" ticket that allows him up to 21 days of travel to any or all of 101 cities-excluding Canada-on Eastern's route map, which stretches from coast to coast and to Mexico City, Acapulco and twelve Caribbean islands. The only catch, aside from the fact that...
...studios have joined the space race as well. Fox hopes to plow some of its Star Wars profits into Alien, the tale of an otherworldly creature who takes to mugging U.S. spacemen. American International Pictures plans a spacey adventure titled The Incredible Melting Man, in which a returning astronaut poses some sticky problems for the p.r. boys at NASA. The poor fellow has to gulp down gallons of blood in order to keep from liquefying. Universal Pictures plans to remake The Thing from Another World, originally directed by Howard Hawks in 1951, and The Incredible Shrinking Man (1957), which will...
...most valuable war trophies carried home by the U.S., he headed the team that developed the Jupiter C rocket that put the U.S. into the space race by launching the Explorer 1 satellite in 1958. His team pioneered the development of the Redstone, which carried America's first astronaut aloft in 1961. Most important, he designed and developed the huge Saturn 5 rocket, which opened a new era of space exploration in 1969 when it carried the Apollo 11 astronauts to the surface of the moon. "Wernher von Braun's name was inextricably linked to our exploration...