Word: compartmentalization
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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The camaraderie in Houston last week was more than simple friendliness between rival spacemen. The Soviet cosmonauts, marking an important milestone in international cooperation in space, were beginning their initial briefings by U.S. space officials on the Apollo spacecraft, including its life-support and communications systems. In fall, Stafford and...
Big Junkyard. As a flotilla of rescue ships hurried to the scene, 15 miles southeast of Key West, Sea-Link's crewmen were told to exert themselves as little as possible in order to conserve oxygen. The crew could do little else. At the pressure that exists at a...
On board the submersible's mother ship, Sea Diver, the senior Link, 68 (long known for his World War II pilot training machines), realized that time was rapidly running out. The 9½-ton sub had only limited life-support chemicals. That was not the only problem. While the...
It was a bittersweet success. Menzies and Meek emerged unharmed from their 31-hour ordeal in the forward compartment, where the atmosphere had remained at about sea-level pressure. But rescuers had to leave Link and Stover (whose motionless bodies could be seen through portholes) inside the aft compartment while...
Noisy Toilet. Personal hygiene has been no less of a nuisance. Besides ruining food, the high temperatures in the orbital workshop section (caused by the loss of its outer shielding) also ruptured two-thirds of Skylab's toothpaste tubes, as well as all of the containers of hand cream...