Word: gemini
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...planned space tasks during the five-day mission. Space sickness, renamed by NASA "space adaptation syndrome" (SAS), was recognized only a decade ago. Says former Astronaut Mike Collins: "We didn't have much of a problem with space sickness as long as we were strapped in Mercury and Gemini. Same for the Russians. It's when we all began floating around in Skylab and the Russians in Salyut that the guys began getting sick...
...astronauts with a Harvard background. Selected in 1978 as a mission specialist for the shuttle program. Hoffman belongs to a new breed of space scientist--a generation of astronauts quite distinct from the toughened test pilots who grabbed the world's attention during the pioneering Mercury. Gemini and Apollo programs...
...Bureau Chief Benjamin Cate and Correspondent Joseph Kane were on hand to record the breathtaking moment. With accommodations in short supply, the self-described "odd couple" rented a 29-ft. recreational vehicle that they parked just 100 yards from NASA's press center. Cate, who has covered ten Gemini and two Apollo space missions, was not surprised by the postponement of the shuttle liftoff. Says he: "NASA has hardly ever had an on-time launch of a new spacecraft. A glitch was sure to creep into the countdown...
...laymen's terms. Even the letter F can be a mystery. At NASA it stands for Fahrenheit, failure, female, forward and front." Washington Correspondent Jerry Hannifin was at the Kennedy Space Center to witness the shuttle's pyrotechnic liftoff a week ago Sunday. Hannifin, who covered the Gemini space program during the 1960s, was reminded once again of the high drama that always attends rocket launchings. Says he: "We are heading into space with all the capabilities to make it a living and working environment...
...Gemini 9 flew off triumphantly two days after its launch was scrubbed -and so did Columbia. Toiling through the night, computer experts in Houston eliminated the hitch by going around it. On Saturday, the experts switched the computers on early, almost a day before the second launch attempt. This time the machines worked in full harmony, and controllers knew they had those electronic gremlins licked. And so, an hour after dawn on Sunday, the signal was given, the engines thundered and, as the grassy meadows and sandy beaches of Florida's coast trembled, Columbia was finally...