Word: houstons
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Frahm and Mosle plan either to sell the program to an established company or to try to market it themselves. John D. Brady '78 of Brady and Associates, a well-known political consulting firm, has expressed interest in purchasing the software and offered Frahm a job at his Houston headquarters...
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...absence of gravity and to disorienting shifts in body positions. As a result the brain receives conflicting information from the eyes and the inner-ear system, which registers pressure changes and affects balance. Says Dr. Philip Johnson, chief of the medical-research branch of the Johnson Space Center in Houston: "In space you receive a lot of novel input into the brain, which doesn't know how to handle it. We just have to adapt. Some people adapt rapidly, some slowly. It's like going out on a boat with a lot of people. Some will get sick...
...remedy, astronauts routinely take along pills containing a combination of scopolamine, a drug that blunts sensations, and dextroamphetamine, a stimulant to counteract scopolamine's dulling effects on the body and mind. When the pills failed to help Lenoir, NASA's chief flight surgeon Sam Pool advised from Houston ground headquarters that Lenoir also take Phenergan, an antihistamine, and Dalmane if he needed a sleep medication. But the combination of potent drugs is not an ideal solution since it can impair coordination and judgment. According to an Air Force surgeon at Andrews Air Force Base, any military or commercial...