Word: owen
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...David Owen Brooks, in his statement to Texas police...
Skylab's most recent problem came only a day or so after Bean and Space Rookies Jack Lousma and Owen Garriott had finally overcome a bad case of motion sickness brought on by their exposure to zero G. During the initial stages of their mission, the crewmen-especially Lousma, who vomited several times-were barely able to perform routine housekeeping and experimental chores. But their "stomach awareness," as NASA euphemistically called it, was quickly overshadowed by the oxidizer leak...
...space agency is about to double the challenge. This Saturday morning, Astronauts Alan Bean, Owen Garriott and Jack Lousma are scheduled to lift off from Cape Kennedy atop a Saturn 1B rocket for the start of a bold new mission aboard the $293 million space station-a record-breaking flight of 59 days that will be the most rigorous test yet of man's ability to withstand the physical and psychological strains of prolonged space travel...
Veteran J.V. stroke Woody Canaday, who rowed especially well in the Wisconsin race, will lead the Crimson to Henley. Won Kim will handle the steering. Steve Carr will be at seven. Tim Hosea at six, Peter Blair at five and Jim Owen at four. Sophomore Ronny Shaw will row at three in the standard-rigged boat, with Greg Stone and Terry Ferguson...
...short leap to wilder spec ulations. The overwhelming majority of scientists would probably agree with Mathematician Martin Gardner that "modern science should indeed arouse in all of us a humility before the immensity of the unexplored and a tolerance for crazy hypotheses." Says Harvard's Owen Gingerich, who is an astronomer as well as a historian of science: "There might be noncausal things in the world." He adds that it is only people with tunnel vision who "think our science will go on in a lineal, explanatory fash ion. It may be that aspects of mysticism totally outside science...