Word: hatchings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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This delay proved to be embarrassing. A sticky bolt prevented the removal of an exterior-hatch handle. Lockheed technicians called for a special drill, which took 20 minutes to arrive. When it did, the battery was dead. There were no replacements on hand. After 90 minutes of fiddling, an ordinary hacksaw was used to free the bolt...
...made the first U.S. space walk, and Chaffee, a rookie astronaut, had been scheduled to run through a simulated Apollo launch. Suited up, they clambered into the gleaming steel cone 218 ft. above Pad 34 and hooked themselves up to life-support systems. Technicians sealed the airtight double hatch plates and pumped pure oxygen into the little chamber. The test countdown had proceeded for several hours when suddenly, over their radio link to the spacecraft, controllers heard the cry "Fire aboard the spacecraft!" followed by movements, more shouts and a sharp scream of pain. "It was horrible," recalled a former...
...nylon net under the astronauts' couches. Had the fire occurred in a natural atmosphere, the three might have had time to escape. But the blaze flashed through the pure oxygen in seconds. Even then the astronauts might have had a chance if they could have blown out Apollo's hatch by touching off explosive bolts. But Grissom was firmly opposed to the use of such bolts. Splashing down in the Atlantic in his Mercury capsule 5 1/ 2 years earlier, he had nearly drowned after its hatch bolts somehow blew prematurely, filling the craft with water...
...competition. He hypothesized that an embryo would develop better in space than on earth because it would not be influenced by gravity. Chicken eggs were chosen because the incubation period is just 21 days. The eggs will remain in a container in the shuttle for six days and then hatch within 13 days after touchdown...
...most hypocritical part of the Administration's move and other "pro-family" legislation like the Hatch Amendment--which would ban abortion--is that the very same people who condemn abortion have come out against sex education in schools, contraceptive counseling, and other methods that would cut down on the number of unwanted pregnancies. While teenagers have recently been getting pregnant more than any other age group--leading concerned groups to call for greater availability of contraceptives and counseling to end to the pitiful phenomena of "children having children"--Phyllis Schlafly and other speakers for the New Right are preaching prayer...