Word: nasa
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...contrast to NASA's open-door policies, the Soviet Union has always guarded its manned space program with military-like secrecy. Flights are rarely announced beforehand. Failures are either ignored or categorically denied...
...Conrad, Paul Weitz and Joe Kerwin still had time to act like ordinary tourists. Clicking away with their Nikons, Hasselblads and automatic cameras, they took 50,000 pictures -more than any space travelers before them. Last week, as they returned to Houston for continued postflight medical examinations and debriefings, NASA began releasing their splendid shots, some of the best ever taken in space...
Although new housing was the original goal of the CRA when it was organized with the Federal Government in 1957, the agency since the early 1960s has been planning construction projects such as NASA research and development facilities and convention halls...
Just 38½ minutes later, the capsule, with the astronauts still inside, was hoisted aboard the big carrier. The unusual procedure was ordered by NASA doctors. They had feared that the astronauts-like Russia's Soyuz 9 cosmonauts, who had to be carried from their ship after an 18-day mission-might be too wobbly from long exposure to weightlessness to make it on their own. Beyond that, the doctors wanted to examine the men as quickly as possible to study their initial reaction to gravity...
Though the final answers to such questions might require weeks of careful study, NASA officials were already convinced that Skylab had gone a long way toward proving that man could live and work successfully in space. During their 395 trips around the earth, the astronauts slept better, ate more, and seemed more comfortable than any space voyagers before them. Equally impressive, the astronauts-despite the power shortage during the early part of their mission-completed at least 80% of most of their scheduled experiments. They also took some 16,000 photographs of the earth...