Word: glycerin
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...looking for clues to the space sickness that has plagued many astronauts during their first few days in space. Meanwhile, two physicists and a chemical engineer were busy on projects ranging from shooting pictures of the auroras and growing crystals in solution to studying the dynamics of water, glycerin and silicone droplets in weightlessness and probing the atmosphere below to measure its content of man-made pollutants. All told, 14 of the 15 scheduled experiments were providing what Mission Manager Joseph Cremin called "good" and even "great" data...
DIED. Richard G. Drew, 81, Minnesota-born inventor who in 1930, as a laboratory assistant for what is now the 3M Co., combined a glue and glycerin stickum with a strip of transparent cellophane to form Scotch tape; in Santa Barbara, Calif...