Word: oxygenated
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...boosters are also reflections of solid-fuel simplicity. There is little machine work; most of the engine's comparatively few parts come prefabricated. Biggest part of the job is filling the casing with fuel, which is a secret liquid plastic compound mixed with crystalline potassium perchlorate to supply oxygen. The mixing is done in a plant that is mostly underground. A crane running on rails sets the empty booster casing upright in a square hole. Then an odd-looking little building mounted on rails moves over each casing and carefully pours it full of paste-thick fuel. When...
...single crew, thus becomes the first ship of the line to be manned by alternate crews, the "Blue" and the "Gold." (Each will remain on station for three months while the other is on shore leave or in training.) An electrolytic generator will manufacture the ship's oxygen supply, and a diagnostic computer will check out every missile and every major subsystem to provide instant intelligence about malfunctioning equipment...
...high Himalayas. Grubstaked with a tidy $200,000 from Chicago Publisher Bailey Howard (World Book Encyclopedia), Sir Edmund will attempt the most grueling mountaineering feat ever tried-to climb hazardous Mount Makalu (27,790 ft. and the world's fifth highest peak) without benefit of oxygen equipment. To prepare for the endeavor, Hillary and the other climbers plan to winter at 20,000 ft. Along the way Sir Edmund hopes to bump into an Abominable Snowman (TIME. Aug. 10), drop him with a tranquilizer shot from a hypodermic gun, in order to become better acquainted...
Pamela Coffey was born three months prematurely, weighed only 2 Ibs. 2 oz. Overdosed with oxygen, she became a victim of retrolental fibroplasia, which damaged the retinas of thousands of U.S. premature babies before doctors reported the cause (TIME, Sept. 28, 1953). When Pamela's father, an Internal Revenue Service regional chief, was transferred to Atlanta, Bob Hogg's group sent a special teacher to help the Coffeys avoid the debilitating kindness that can stunt a blind child's spirit even more than its physical handicap. At home, Pamela was taught to dress herself and brush...
...procedures, pumped fuel into the tanks at too rapid a rate. Another was severely damaged while being airlifted to Cape Canaveral in October, when Martin workers failed to open valves inside the missile so that it could "breathe" during the flight; pressure differences caused an implosion that cracked the oxygen tank...