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...glittering new star appeared in the heavens last week, one that will be seen by more people than any other man-made object in history. It is the tissue-thin balloon satellite, Echo II, as tall as a 13-story building...
...Thor-Agena B rocket booster. Launched from California's Vandenberg Air Force Base, Echo II rocketed into a polar orbit 642 to 816 miles above the earth. As it sped toward Madagascar about an hour after launch, the canister popped open, releasing the sturdy skin of the balloon, composed of two layers of aluminum foil laminated to a sheet of plastic. The warm rays of the sun began to vaporize chemicals inside the satellite, expanding it to its full 135-ft. diameter...
...flexible hose. It operates on the principle that physical work involves energy consumption that can be measured by the amount of oxygen the body consumes. Air expelled from the patient's lungs during a work period is collected through the face mask and stored in an orange balloon. Then the balloon is detached and its contents analyzed. Measurement of the amount of unused oxygen tells Dr. Steinberg whether the patient's heart is being forced to work overtime in order to get enough oxygen-deficient blood to the tissues...
Died. Barbara Keith, 42, Hartford, Conn., widowed grandmother of ten, a sport parachutist and balloon enthusiast who once said, "I go up in a balloon because it's living. Who wants to sit home and knit an afghan when you can sit suspended under a 40-foot bag and be part of the wind?"; by drowning, when her hot-air balloon drifted off course during a race from Santa Catalina Island to the Southern California coast, was found 42 hours later...
...Angeles, she weighed 315 Ibs., spread thick over a 5-ft. 6-in. frame. Dr. Ernst Drenick was delighted to see her. For years he had been studying the metabolic mysteries of obesity, and had rounded up ten of California's fattest male veterans-one a balloon-shaped 550 Ibs.-as volunteers. The WAVE would help them discover what difference sex might make in a grueling experiment to find out the value and effects of total starvation as a means of reducing...