Word: oxygenated
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...limp. The electrocardiogram was taken by happenstance: the hospital was making a study of heart action in prematures, and this baby seemed to have been about a month premature. The startling ECG finding alerted the doctors to the possibility of serious illness. When the baby turned blue, they gave oxygen. But the heart was too badly damaged to survive...
...latest and greatest venture into space, he arrived by helicopter at the launching site at New Mexico's Holloman Air Force Base, climbed into an air-conditioned van to don his Buck Rogersish pressurized space suit, and to begin two hours of inhaling pure oxygen (to get his red blood cells loaded up with an extra supply). Shortly before zero hour, 5:30 a.m., he staggered from the van. his 165-lb. frame laden with 155 lbs. of clothing and equipment, including an experimental stabilizing parachute designed to prevent dangerous high-altitude spin - during which blood collects...
Planks on the Pedals. A slender (5 ft. 7 in., 121 lbs.) blonde, Jerrie demonstrated a point that many scientists have long believed: that women may be better equipped than men for existing in space. Reported Project Mercury's Lovelace: women have lower body mass, need significantly less oxygen and less food, hence may be able to go up in lighter capsules, or exist longer than men on the same supplies. Since women's reproductive organs are internally located, they should be able to tolerate higher radiation levels...
...three months behind schedule, New York's Malan-Grove Construction Co. gave 90% of the work to 46 subcontractors. Two of them ran into financial difficulties and are now being operated by bonding companies. At the Offutt launching sites, nine concrete pedestals intended for support of liquid-oxygen lines had to be replaced because they had inadequate supporting steel. Warren Air Force Base in Cheyenne, Wyo., scheduled to be the first operational tactical missile base by last spring, will not be ready until fall, largely because contractors could not fulfill their commitments...
PHASE 3: liquid oxygen fuel is slowly pumped into the missile from nearby refrigerated tanks...