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Because the early hours in orbit are critical in judging human reaction to weightlessness, the scientist-astronauts got a fast start on their biomedical program. They took blood samples from one another (Payload Specialist Byron Lichtenberg, as the chief bloodletter, became known as "the vampire"), underwent eye tests, lifted steel balls, were flung around in a sledlike contraption called a body-restraint system, and even endured electric shocks. Not surprisingly, the orbital guinea pigs complained that the tests were making them ill, although the torture had a medical purpose: to learn more about the nausea, headaches and general lethargy, known...
Monitoring the experiments is a new breed of scientist-astronauts called payload specialists. On Spacelab's maiden voyage, they are Ulf Merbold, 42, a West German physicist whose specialty is the behavior of materials at low temperatures, and Byron Lichtenberg, 35, a biomedical engineer from M.I.T. and Brown University with a particular interest in solving the problem of motion sickness that has afflicted so many astronauts...
...lovers of a philosophical bent may ponder an empty frame bearing the label A Knife Without a Blade Whose Handle Is Missing. Georg-Christoph Lichtenberg, 1742-1799* The more athletic ones can equip themselves for the outback with a bizarre weapon whose barrel undulates like a snake: it is a kangaroo gun, "whose specially studied trajectory enables the bullet to follow the bounding animal...
...particular were outspoken foes of the regime. Clemens Cardinal von Galen of Miinster denounced the Nazis' euthanasia program from the pulpit, halting, at least for a time, the mass murder of feeble-minded and spastic children. After calling upon his congregation to pray for the Jews, Father Bernhard Lichtenberg, dean of Berlin's St. Hedwig Cathedral, was sent to his death at Dachau. The gifted Protestant theologian Dietrich Bonhoeffer joined the conservative anti-Nazi movement as early as 1935, was executed moments before liberation...
...Catholic intellectuals who met secretly at the home of Protestant Layman Helmuth von Moltke to plan for the reconstruction of post-Hitler Germany along Christian and democratic lines. Arrested after the failure of the plot against Hitler, Delp was hanged seven months later. Another saintly priest was Provost Bernhard Lichtenberg of Berlin, who was imprisoned and ultimately deported to Dachau after praying for the Jews at St. Hedwig's Cathedral...