Word: jolts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Karsten Prager, who flew in from Hong Kong. Also on hand were TIME'S Pentagon correspondent. John Mulliken, and Stringer Zalin Grant. In the midst of the hectic week, McCulloch learned that his seven-year-old son David had undergone a successful emergency appendectomy in Hong Kong. "The jolt," said McCulloch later, "was at least partially absorbed by fatigue and activity...
From takeoff on through its 118-mile-high flight last October, the Aerobee rocket performed perfectly. Then, shortly before it landed, a braking para chute opened with an unplanned jolt...
Investigators believe that the jolt was so severe that the Agena engine shut down and enough pressure built up in the fuel and oxidizer tanks to rupture them. After that, the Agena either broke up or was destroyed in a fiery blast of fuel and oxidizer from the burst tanks...
When he kept it on for long periods, his family noticed that his speech was slurred, he seemed a trifle tipsy and unduly gay. The patient himself said that a jolt of current left him feeling as though he had downed two martinis - with (he added benefit of immeasurably greater pain relief...
...could cause the spacemen to faint under the high G forces of reentry. But Cooper and Conrad stayed alert during both the re-entry and the many postflight tests. Every day the astronauts were strapped prone to a tilt table, then swung rapidly into a vertical position. The sudden jolt induces symptoms of orthostatic hypotension. The doctors wanted to see how long it took for the astronauts' systems to recover from the jolt, and to compare this with the length of time it took in preflight tests. Time after time, the astronauts withstood the test without blacking out. After...