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...spectator-dotted beach south of Cape Canaveral an Air Force crash boat cut through the Atlantic rollers to wave off small craft. Just before lunch missile buffs spotted "the Bird" through binoculars-a slim, distant white finger pointed against the light blue sky. Bubbling clouds of evaporating LOX (liquid oxygen) obscured the Atlas as technicians completed fueling. But by 2:35 p.m. "T-time" (firing time) was close at hand...
...sized, 2-lb. gadget that can serve as a resuscitator, inhalator or anesthesia machine was described by Western Reserve University's Dr. Robert A. Hingson. Already used in more than 7,000 cases for short-term (five to 15 min.) anesthesia, it delivers a nonexplosive mixture of cyclopropane, oxygen and helium. Patients thus anesthetized have had fractures set, babies delivered by high forceps, and kidneys removed. Dr. Hingson has made it work at 12,000 ft. in the Andes, and medical student volunteers have used it as an inhalator to escape noxious gases...
...scheduled start of the flight, Kittinger got into his pressure suit ("feels like being loved by an octopus") and climbed into the gondola, a closed cylinder 3 ft. in diameter and 7 ft. tall. The lid was clamped shut, and the air inside was replaced by a helium-oxygen mixture. This was to denitrogenize Kittinger so that a sudden drop in pressure would not give him the bends by releasing bubbles of nitrogen in his blood. From this point on, his voice sounded somewhat squeaky; helium raises the pitch of the voice by about one octave...
...balloon reached 96,000 ft. in 78 minutes. "There I was," cracks Pilot Kittinger, "at 96,000, stalled out but not dropping." The original plan had been for him to make a twelve-hour flight, but an oxygen leak developed, and Colonel Stapp, who was following by helicopter, decided that Kittinger should start down after 2½ hours. Otto Winzen, maker of the balloon, relayed the decision. Kittinger replied in code that he would not come down. Winzen pleaded. Back from 18 miles overhead came the coded answer: "Come and get me." Stapp and Winzen were afraid that hypoxia (lack...
...research ships, Britain's Discovery II and the Atlantis from Woods Hole, selected stations off the South Carolina coast where the Gulf Stream runs rapidly northward. The scientists on the Atlantis began sampling water from the surface to the bottom. This gave the differences of temperature, salinity, oxygen content, etc., that theoreticians think are associated with deep-down currents...