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...walked on by workers or the astronauts themselves. In addition, the more than 1,000 lbs. of nonmetallic materials aboard Apollo (grease, wire insulation, spacesuits, etc.) have been checked for flammability and replaced if they failed to meet NASA's new fireproofing standards. Flammable plastic-foam pads and nylon in the astronauts' spacesuits and seat belts have been replaced by Fiberglas "Beta cloth," which is heavier and more bulky but also more fire resistant...
After more than a year of hoping, Harvard's varsity track team will finally get a new home--a $300,000 inflatable, vinyl-coated, nylon "bubble...
...pavilion would have consisted of four double-walled semispheres of fireproof nylon, inflated by air pumped between the walls. Inside, the semi-sphere walls would have served as huge, curved screens for a variety of films. Visitors would ascend on escalators and stand on graduated platforms, where they would feel almost as if they were suspended in space...
Personally, I prefer one-inch sisal for the job. You get too many blisters on your hands from nylon...
...praise of the fiber extracted from a cactus-like plant that grows mostly in Africa and Latin America. Not everyone, however, feels the same affection for sisal. Though it is still used in rope, twine, potato sacks and carpets, sisal is being steadily replaced by nylon and other synthetics. Its last bastion is agricultural twine, which now accounts for 75% of world sisal production...