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Word: muchea (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1961-1961
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...second time, everything was normal. While it was crossing the Indian Ocean, Enos was doing minor tasks that earned him sips of water and ten small, banana-flavored pellets, which were delivered mechanically when he pushed the proper levers. But as the capsule approached Australia, the monitor station at Muchea on the west coast noted that it was not maintaining its proper attitude. Instead of pointing its blunt forward end steadily 34 degrees above the horizontal, it was veering erratically. The stations at Woomera, in south-central Australia, and at Hawaii, confirmed Muchea's report. Apparently...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Meditative Chimponaut | 12/8/1961 | See Source »

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