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Clad in his cumbersome space suit and connected to Gemini by a white, 25-ft. oxygen and communications cord, Cernan methodically began his work. He attached a rearview mirror to the docking bar near Gemini's nose so that Stafford could watch and photograph him through a forward-facing window while he maneuvered near the aft end of the craft. Just behind the hatch, he clamped a 16-mm. movie camera into place...
...Struggling mightily, he pulled off the AMU's thermal cover, which had not been automatically jettisoned as planned after Gemini passed through the atmosphere on its way into orbit. Working with a check list calling for 32 separate operations, he began testing the AMU's propulsion and oxygen systems, pushed its arm controls into place, and prepared to strap himself in. The job required unexpected exertion. "He's doing four or five times more work than we anticipated," radioed Stafford...
...stems from "birth injury," though not the physical damage associated with old-fashioned use of high forceps during a difficult delivery. The injury is far more subtle, often undetectable when it occurs. It results when the brain, or especially sensitive parts of it like the hippocampus, are starved of oxygen or exposed to physiological poisons. Evidence for this, says Dr. Crandall, has been found in scarring of the brain tissues removed in all operations...
...electrical leads hooked up, Mrs. Ceraso's circulation took a new turn. When her left ventricle contracted, it propelled most of its blood, against negligible resistance, into the pump's Silastic chamber. The electrical impulse signaling this event then triggered the pump, and a gush of oxygen into the outer Fiberglas chamber squeezed the blood out of the Silastic core into the aorta. In the process, it pushed the blood along with much more force than Mrs. Ceraso's enlarged and enfeebled left ventricle could have mustered unaided. To reduce the risk of blood damage or other...
...anxiously in the background. The doctor has obviously been up all night, brooding, worrying, waiting-probably in part because he did not know what else to do. In today's medicine, both the scene and the sentiment are badly out of date. The child would be in an oxygen tent in a hospital, festooned with tubes, watched over by bustling nurses or electronic monitors, banished from her parents (visiting hours, 9-11 a.m.), and lucky to get a brief visit from the doctor once or twice a day. Instead of Old Doc's bedside manner, the modern physician...