Word: hatches
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...second weekend of modern dance at Agassiz Theater will feature performances and choreography by Takako Asakawa and David Hatch Walker, soloists with the legendary Martha Graham Company. Tickets $2.50 at the Holyoke Center Ticket Office, the Loeb box office, and at the door...
...ordeal in the forward compartment, where the atmosphere had remained at about sea-level pressure. But rescuers had to leave Link and Stover (whose motionless bodies could be seen through portholes) inside the aft compartment while it was slowly depressurized; if the men were still alive, suddenly opening the hatch at sea level would have caused a possibly fatal case of bends. When the hatch was opened, the fears were confirmed: both Link and Stover had died of carbon dioxide poisoning. Heartbroken by the loss, the elder Link nonetheless vowed to continue his oceanographic work. "We're not going...
Kerwin went outside through a small side hatch in the airlock module...
Skylab was just about to enter the earth's shadow, and the astronauts had to begin their work illuminated only by lights in the hatch area. After they assembled five sections of tubing into a 25-ft.-long extension pole and attached it to a 2-ft.-long cutting tool similar to pruning shears, they untangled the long, snaking umbilical cords that provided them with oxygen and a communications link to Skylab and Mission Control. Then, as the sun reappeared, they began to make their way through the maze of trusses on Skylab's telescope mount, circled part...
...stabilize myself," he complained as he failed again and again. "I just can't do it." Finally, just as the spacecraft was about to make another pass into darkness-which would have forced the astronauts to halt their work because the illumination from the hatch area did not reach the solar wing-the cutter moved into place...