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Harvard's Olympics-hopeful heavy-weight crew races Northeastern, Brown and Rutgers for the Stein Cup today. The race will be the heavyweight's only contest on the Charles this spring...
...minimize the amount of oxygen necessary to maintain the two-gas atmosphere (44% oxygen, 56% nitrogen) that the student crew breathes, the simulated spacecraft is equipped with a concentrator that pulls exhaled carbon dioxide out of the air. The carbon dioxide is combined in a catalytic reactor with hydrogen and converted into water and methane. An electrolysis system then decomposes the water into oxygen-for breathing-and hydrogen that is used to feed the catalyti c reactor. Reluctant to waste even the squeal of this chemical pig, McDonnell Doug las engineers are working on spacecraft thrusters that can be powered...
Charcoal-Filtered. Although 1,200 lbs. to 1,500 lbs. of stored water would normally be necessary to sustain a crew of four on a 60-day mission, the California students embarked with only 80 lbs.- plus a 200-lb. retrieval system that recovers water from both urine and moisture in the cabin atmosphere. As urine is collected, it is pumped over an array of felt wicks. Air is drawn into the system from the cabin, heated to more than 110° F. and blown across the soggy wicks. The heated air, containing cabin moisture, picks up additional moisture from...
Speed Reading. During recreation hours, members of the student crew-who range in age from 21 to 28, have about the same physical and psychological qualifications required for astronauts-go to extreme lengths to avoid boredom. They have practiced script-lettering and speed reading (one has progressed from 350 words to 4,400 words per minute), passed questionnaires and notes in bottles to the experiment team outside, and performed trumpet and harmonica duets...
...experiment went into its final week, McDonnell Douglas scientists reported, systems were working satisfactorily and crew morale was high. One of the biggest complaints to date has concerned the urine-derived drinking water. Griped the crew: "It tastes flat...