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...rocket climbed, Shepard calmly reported the growing Gs of acceleration and the state of the capsule's pressure and oxygen supply. The Gs rose to four, then five, but his voice showed no sign of stress...
...proper attitude for firing its three braking retrorockets. They were not necessary for the flight; this time they were fired for practice. Then the retro package was jettisoned. Preparing for descent, Shepard reported that his periscope had retracted. As the capsule plunged downward into the atmosphere, and the Gs of deceleration climbed toward a punishing 10, the astronaut's voice grew gruff as he strained to make his breath behave. Then the capsule slowed; his words were distinct again...
sophomore year is the toughest," Monro stated, "and the departments like to keep it routine." "The year gs to courses, to sophomore tutorial, to the departments...
Voluminous records of the flight proved that Ham had performed magnificently. In spite of fearful acceleration forces (up to 18 Gs) and weightlessness that lasted seven minutes, he had worked his light-and-lever system without a single error, never getting a shock...
...service job in Washington in Depression-dreary 1933 to help pay for a Ph.D. in English literature that would launch him on a teaching career. He has yet to find time for that doctorate. A talent for staffwork hoisted him up through civil service ranks to its top-level GS-18 rating before he stepped out of ranks in 1958 to become assistant director of the Budget Bureau. Two years ago Dwight Eisenhower named him chairman of the Civil Service Commission. "God and the Government," Jones once noted, "have been very, very good...