Word: mcdivitt
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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They were bearded and sweaty, and fatigue lines were etched deeply around their eyes. But they grinned, and at one point McDivitt, for the hell of it, let out a loud "Yahoo!" Before the hungry, thirsty astronauts had a chance to eat or drink anything, doctors whisked them down to sick bay for the first of a series of intensive medical tests that will continue for weeks. "I knew we'd wind up in a hospital," quipped McDivitt...
...McDivitt, he had a few flecks of caked blood in his nostrils. The medical men figured that this was caused by the dryness of his mucous membranes from inhaling pure oxygen for so long. Their solution for future space trips: a pinch of plain old petroleum jelly in the nostrils. X rays were taken of the astronauts' little fingers and heel bones both before and after the flight to see whether their long exposure to weight lessness and inactivity caused note worthy loss of calcium. The Soviet cosmonauts suffered such bone demineralization on their flights, and patients confined...
Straw Men. While in space, McDivitt lost four pounds and White, eight. But heavy eating aboard the Wasp changed that. By the time they arrived back in the U.S., each was a pound heavier than before Gemini 4's takeoff...
What bothered the astronauts most was fatigue. "Both men were bushed," said Berry. McDivitt explained later that he and White were kept awake both by radio transmissions and both by the thumping of jet thrusters fired to correct the cabin's attitude. "Try to sleep with somebody slapping you on the foot with a hammer," he said. "You don't get much...
Three days after the astronauts emerged from their capsule, the Wasp put in at Mayport, Fla. McDivitt and White were flown to Houston's Ellington Air Force Base, where their wives-both named Pat-their children and 1,500 well-wishers waited in 92° heat. Four-year-old Patrick McDivitt could hardly wait to blurt out some news. "Daddy! Daddy!" he cried. "I jumped off the high board!" McDivitt grinned, patted his son's head...