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...Houston hospital bed, Astronaut Donald "Deke" Slayton, 51, was flying high. Shortly after his July 24th return from the Apollo-Soyuz space flight, during which Slayton and fellow Crew Members Thomas Stafford and Vance Brand had inhaled poisonous fumes, doctors spotted a tiny lesion on Deke's left lung. Because of Slayton's age and past history as a chain smoker, a better than 50-50 chance of malignancy was predicted. "He's an extremely lucky man," said Dr. Charles Berry after announcing that Slayton's tumor was benign. Not only will Deke regain his flight...
...John Higginson of the World Health Organization suggested that as many as 80% of all cancers were caused by agents in the environment. But no one is scoffing any more. The National Cancer Institute has published charts showing those areas of the country with the highest death rates from lung, liver and bladder cancer (see map); these areas also happen to have chemical plants-and chemical pollution. The obvious conclusion: Americans-and others elsewhere round the world-are increasingly filling their environment with chemicals that are not only harmful but may even be lethal...
...determine the correlation, Commoner and his Washington University colleagues tested 92 chemical compounds on strains of the common bacteria Salmonella typhimurium, developed by Ames. Each compound was made up in three different concentrations and mixed with preparations made from seven different rat tissues (liver, kidney, brain, stomach, lung, spleen and blood); each of the mixtures was then added to culture dishes containing the Salmonella...
Cancelled Dinner. That, however, was the end of the post-landing celebrations. All further activities were cancelled, including a steak and lobster dinner, and NASA doctors began treating the three men for a potentially serious lung problem. Unknown to the watching world, the glowing hot Apollo had begun filling with what the astronauts described as a "brownish-yellow gas" as it plunged through the 24,000-ft. level. Scarcely able to breathe, the spacemen choked through the harrowing four-minute descent. After the splashdown, they struggled for another five minutes, while suspended upside down in the capsized craft...
...apparently was highly corrosive nitrogen tetraoxide (N 2 O 4 ), used as an oxidizer (or combustion agent) in Apollo's small attitude-control thrusters. If it is inhaled, the gas may cause only slight pain and coughing at first; but later, as it works its way into the lung tissue, it can lead to burnlike damage called pulmonary edema, filling the lungs with fluid. During their night aboard the carrier, the astronauts experienced considerable discomfort from coughing and were given cortisone in order to reduce lung inflammation. Next day when the carrier docked at Pearl Harbor, the three were...