Word: geminis
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Gemini 6, if launched on schedule Monday, Oct. 25, will be exhaustively covered on all three networks...
...entry heat. Next month California's Super Temp Corp. and Tar Card Co will begin marketing $8.95 tobacco pipes lined with pyrolytic graphite. The fuel cell, which generates power by converting hydrogen and oxygen into electricity and water, was a laboratory curiosity until General Electric put it in Gemini. Now General Dynamics is using the fuel cell to produce electricity aboard a one-man submarine, and Allis-Chalmers is using it to power experimental spot welders, golf carts, tractors and forklift trucks...
...capsule-an aquatic dumbwaiter that brings in such goodies as chocolate cake and fresh meat to supplement the aquanauts' stock of freeze-dried food. The men can watch commercial TV but prefer to peer out the portholes at the fish looking in at them. During the flight of Gemini 5, Aquanaut Carpenter even chatted directly with Astronaut Gordon Cooper. In case of emergency, the men could get power and fresh water from a tube linking them to shore, and they could surface in a 14-ft. capsule anchored outside the Sealab...
...Diet. On the day after splashdown, they were flown to Cape Kennedy to begin eleven days of even more intensive physical checkups and debriefings. The exams showed that Cooper and Conrad were not so fatigued as the men of the four-day Gemini 4. For one reason, the Gemini 5 astronauts were able to get six or seven hours of sleep daily after the first few crucial days. When they slept in orbit, their heartbeats dropped to the high 30s. As they maneuvered their spacecraft and performed experiments, the beats rose to the 60s and 70s, which is about normal...
...flight and the tests supported what Gemini's chief surgeon, Dr. Charles A. Berry, has insisted right along: the human body is extraordinarily adaptable. With care and preparation, man can adjust to the exigencies and demands of space. From their first examinations, doctors could find no reason to fear for the safety of the astronauts on next year's Gemini 7 mission, or on more adventurous flights later on. Said Dr. Berry: "We've qualified man to go to the moon...