Word: hatchings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Most of her writing is done late at night at a desk in her Georgetown bedroom or on holiday at the family's summer house on Cape Cod, but poetry has become far more than a hobby. "My psyche demands it," she says. "It's my escape hatch...
...pearlfish is impressive in numbers as well as appetite. Females begin spawning some three weeks after they are hatched; every week they produce from 30 to 300 eggs, which dry out and are preserved in the baked mud after floodwaters recede. The next year, when the plains are inundated again, the eggs hatch in as little as half an hour after they are moistened, producing a new generation of fish to sweep the waters clear of mosquito larvae...
...ease the psychological adjustment for Astronaut Buzz Aldrin, who will take a space walk during the flight of Gemini 12 this fall, NASA now plans to acclimatize him more gradually to open space. Before he leaves Gemini's cabin entirely, Aldrin will poke his head through the open hatch, stand up on his seat and shoot pictures with only the upper half of his body outside the spacecraft. NASA officials point out that Gordon and Gemini 9's Eugene Cernan, both of whom had trouble with EVA, took their space walks before their open-hatch photography sessions...
Aldrin's underwater training has been largely pointed toward the most ambitious EVA activity scheduled for Gemini 12: use of the Buck Rogers-like, jet-propelled Astronaut Maneuvering Unit (TIME, Nov. 26). Initial plans called for Aldrin to emerge from his hatch and work his way back to the AMU, stowed in Gemini's equipment section. After snapping the AMU's chairlike arms into place, he was to strap himself in and then jet about in space, connected to Gemini by a 125-ft. safety tether...
From a box behind the Agena's docking collar, Gordon pulled out the looped end of a 2-in.-diameter, 100-ft., Dacron rope, slipped it over the end of Gemini's l-ft.-long docking bar and clamped it tight. As he crawled back toward his hatch, exhausted by that seemingly simple task, perspiration temporarily blinded his right eye. With that, Conrad ordered him back into Gemini's cabin, wiping out planned exercises with a hand-held jet maneuvering gun and a power tool for tightening bolts...