Word: outerness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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DIRECTIONS '65 (ABC, 1-1:30 p.m.). New York Times Science Editor Walter Sullivan and Doctor of Divinity Donald Barnhouse discuss the possibilities of life in outer space...
...plan as proposed reaches to the outer limits of what is constitutionally allowed. However, the wrongs and injustices inflicted upon these plaintiffs have clearly exceeded-and continue to exceed-the outer limits of what is constitutionally permissible. The extent of the right to assemble, demonstrate and march should be commensurate with the enormity of the wrongs that are being protected and petitioned against. In this case, the wrongs are enormous...
Finally, Power feels that the U.S. may be making a fatal error if it should neglect the military possibilities of outer space. He charges that Washington, which "blithely joined" in a United Nations resolution banning the use of weapons in space, virtually conceded "this promising medium to Soviet trickery." Power warns that Americans "may wake up one morning" and find a number of nuclear-armed Soviet satellites "floating in stationary orbits over every part of the United States...
...into space, he said, Leonov used an air lock, a chamber with airtight doors at both ends. When he crawled into it, Comrade Belyayev sealed the inner door tight, and Leonov presumably tested his space suit to see that it was working properly; then he cautiously loosened the outer door. Though it must have been rehearsed on earth over and over again, this was surely a moment of hideous crisis...
...vacuum of space reached into it like a monster's claw. The oxygen in Leonov's suit tried to expand, and the suit inflated like a balloon. The cosmonaut must have listened anxiously for the hissing of tiny leaks. But all went well; he flung open the outer door and was the first human to look the deadly vacuum full in the face...