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Several have been engaged in space-related scientific research. Air Force Major Edward G. Givens Jr., 36, has been stationed at NASA's Houston headquarters, as project officer for a Buck Rogersish backpack to power space walks. Physicist Don L. Lind, a former Navy airman, helped devise a mechanism for measuring "solar wind"-charged particles that flow through space. Youngest of the lot at 28 is Navy Lieut. Bruce McCandless II, a doctoral candidate in electrical engineering at Stanford, whose father won the Medal of Honor aboard the U.S.S. San Francisco off Guadalcanal...
THUNDERBALL. Sean Connery returns as 007, equipped with a backpack jet and aqualung for all sorts of spectacular conquests by land...
THUNDERBALL. Sean Connery returns as 007, equipped with a backpack jet and aqualung for all sorts of spectacular conquests by land...
...pool full of sharks for the film's best single shot, a fisheye view from below, filtered through a victim's blood. In one donnybrook following a funeral, Bond slugs it out with the widow-actually a male adversary-and lifts himself up, up and away by backpack jet. Still more dazzling is a climactic, blue-green underwater battle between Largo's men, wearing black rubber wet suits, and the brave lads from Our Side, parachuting to the fray in flag...
Perfected after six years of research, the sophisticated AMU (for Astronaut Maneuvering Unit) that is built into the space walker's backpack will give Bassett singular agility. It is powered by twelve small hydrogen peroxide thrusters that can propel it in any direction; it has its own fuel tanks, running lights, gyroscopes, and an alarm system that warns the wearer by flashing lights and sounding beeps in his earphones if fuel or oxygen is running low. With its own hour-long oxygen supply, storage batteries and radio and telemetry systems, the AMU does not even need the "umbilical cord...