Word: feeling
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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What will the first Mercury Astronaut feel, see and hear? Last week an eloquent forecast came from Navy Captain Norman Barr, veteran flight surgeon and pilot (12,500 hours), who helped set the physical requirements for the space-bound seven. Said Dr. Barr to the American Academy of General Practice in San Francisco...
...World. Then his body will become suddenly light, as the rocket burns out at last, and he commences the fall toward the center of the earth that will continue for 4^ hours. He will have dropped, as if over a precipice, into a still and weightless world. He will feel no motion. He will not rock and sway. He will only fall. He will be gravity-free. If he moves an extremity, he will find that it will remain placed where he put it. He will find comfort in stretching his arm to one side and leaving it there. Soon...
...search the ship, his body, and his soul for the correct answer to this question. No doubt he will have every indication that his ship is adequate. He will know little about his physical state. His heart he hears as it pounds in his ears, and he will feel grateful for this. The question from the ground will give him more information about his physiological condition than he has had up until...
...body responses will be measured on the earth below. Physicians will be hearing the sounds of his heart, the sounds of his breathing, watching the electrical activity of his heart and muscles and taking his temperature and blood pressure, all by remote control and radio link. He may feel less sure in his mind as to the state of his psychological being. The curious finger of fate has pointed him out to be hurled into space to make the supreme test as to whether man can function and survive space travel. He has been chosen as the one single sample...
...smiling, grey Homburg clamped on head, looking tanned but thin. He had a mock shoving match with Nixon at the top of the ramp to see who would make the descent first; they came down together, still jostling. Said Dulles into microphones at the bottom of the ramp: "I feel pretty good...