Word: conrade
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...hour, or 4% more than the hourly $4.40 in wages and fringe benefits currently earned by the average mill hand. The industry, which started out by offering half the amount sought by the U.S.W., last week came up to some 13? an hour in what Chief Management Negotiator R. Conrad Cooper, 62, called "a last-ditch effort to avoid a steel strike." At the same time, Cooper, an executive vice president of U.S. Steel, insisted: "This...
Dogged by minor mishaps, determined to go the full route, the men of Gemini 5 aimed for eight days in orbit -and made it. Early this week Gordon Cooper and Charles Conrad maneuvered their spacecraft back into the earth's atmosphere over California. Minutes later, at precisely 8:55:58 a.m. (EDT) on Sunday, they splashed down in the Atlantic about 90 miles short of target, soon were picked up by helicopter and lifted to the carrier Lake Champlain. Safe and smiling, they seemed in perfect shape...
Beyond Expectations. The flight proved more conclusively than anything before it that man is adaptable to the challenges and rigors of space. Though it would be many days before doctors could tell whether "Gordo" Cooper and "Pete" Conrad suffered any really bad effects from the prolonged weightlessness and confinement in their spaceship, they appeared to have nothing worse than stiff joints, heavy beards and nagging itches. Cooper apparently came through better than on his first, 22-orbit flight two years ago; his heartbeat averaged 89 then, about 70 this time...
...even before REP could be released, there was an ominous hint that the mission might be going sour once more. In the final minutes of the first revolution, as Gemini 5 came within range of the Guaymas tracking station in Mexico, Astronaut Pete Conrad made a calm, almost routine report. The pressure, he said, was dropping in the fuel cells' oxygen supply. The gauge that normally should have read 800 to 900 Ibs. per sq. in. was dropping fast. Since the fuel cells were the main source of power for the spacecraft's communications, computer and environment control...
Anxious Quiet. Following instructions from Houston, Cooper and Conrad worked desperately to rejuvenate the balky fuel-cell system. Neither the automatic nor the manual controls for the oxygen tank heater would function. And getting at the heater itself was out of the question. Located in the adapter section, it was inaccessible to the crew. The astronauts flicked switches off and on again and again, trying somehow to stir the system into life. They maneuvered the spacecraft around so chat its blunt end, which housed the fuel-cell system, would get the full impact of the sun's rays...