Word: micrometeor
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...heat repellant, as protection from deep-freeze temperatures, and as a pressure force to keep White s body from exploding in the near-vacuum of space. Yet it also allows a certain freedom of movement. Although NASA experts figured that the odds against White being punctured by high-velocity micrometeor in space were about 10,000 to 1, they nevertheless blasted White's suit over and over again with splinters of plastic fired at 25,000 ft. per sec. In those tests, the suit held...
...last month from White. Sands, N. Mex., climbed for 102 miles before blossoming, folded its petals only after it dropped within 65 miles of the earth's surface. When it finally landed, Physicist Robert K. Soberman of the Air Force Cambridge Research Laboratory hoped to find a few micrometeor punctures in the three-layer sandwich of thin Mylar film and Plexiglas that lined the Aerobee's dust catchers. What he actually found was something quite different: during each second of exposure, some ten meteorites had hit each square centimeter. Most of the holes were microscopic...
...Stars: After getting his second Emmy of the evening at the award ceremonies last week (see above), Jack Benny asked a prophetically rhetorical question: "Wouldn't it be funny if my next show was lousy?" Shower succeeded in reducing its stars (Janis Paige, John Raitt, Betty Grable) to micrometeor magnitude, often seemed an accidental parody of an early '30s movie musical, lacking only the traditional aerial views of chorus girls sprawling in living floral patterns. Jokes and Chrysler commercials sometimes had interchangeable parts. Cooed Barbara Nichols, playing a scrub girl in a carwash emporium...
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