Word: beaning
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Looking out into space, Jack Lousma was equally impressed: "There's nothing except a bit of light reflecting off the solar panels, a few stars and a half-moon." Both astronauts were outside Skylab, finally taking their long-postponed space walk. From inside the spaceship, Skylab Commander Al Bean sounded envious. "Well, you will surely remember this day for a long time," he said. Indeed they would. Before Garriott and Lousma re-entered the orbital laboratory last week, they had spent some 6½ hours outside-nearly doubling the endurance record for a space walk set only two months...
...earth. About fifteen minutes later, the astronauts themselves became aware of the problem when an alarm went off aboard the space station, jolting them out of their sleep. Later, as they looked out of the window, they saw sparkling particles streaming by the orbital workshop. Said Skylab Commander Alan Bean with the coolness of a lunar-landing veteran: "We thought that was unusual." So it was. The temperature drop and the particles signaled a crisis that could lead to the first rescue mission in the history of space flight...
Skylab's most recent problem came only a day or so after Bean and Space Rookies Jack Lousma and Owen Garriott had finally overcome a bad case of motion sickness brought on by their exposure to zero G. During the initial stages of their mission, the crewmen-especially Lousma, who vomited several times-were barely able to perform routine housekeeping and experimental chores. But their "stomach awareness," as NASA euphemistically called it, was quickly overshadowed by the oxidizer leak...
Said the elated Bean: "That's what we've been hoping you would say." In fact, the astronauts got ready to take their repeatedly postponed space walk early this week. That will enable them to erect a second sunshade over the area stripped bare when a micrometeorite shield ripped off during Skylab's launch in May. The astronauts will also take the opportunity to reload their solar-telescope array with fresh film. Underscoring the renewed optimism at Houston that Skylab would survive this latest crisis, Kraft made arrangements to bring Soviet Ambassador Anatoly Dobrynin to Houston...
Writer-director John Milius claims to be fascinated by men who are legends in their own time. The 29-year-old Californian also wrote the screenplays for Jeremiah Johnson and The Life and Times of Judge Roy Bean. He tries to make criminals cult heros, but we are left with no sense of the history or development of the legend. We don't know why the man is a legend and, indeed, don't believe we are watching his story. We disbelieve for several reasons...