Word: oxygenating
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...during last month's fifth flight of Columbia. They were to be the first EVAS (for extravehicular activity) by American astronauts since Skylab crew members exited into space in 1973 to make external repairs on their orbital laboratory. Mission controllers called off the latest walks after a vital oxygen-and-coolant circulating fan in Astronaut Joe Allen's backpack wheezed and sputtered, and the pressure in Astronaut Bill Lenoir's suit failed to reach acceptable levels...
...went wrong with Lenoir's suit. Despite all efforts during the flight, the suit would not reach the required pressure, 4.3 Ibs. per sq. in. (Although this is only a third of the earth's normal atmospheric pressure, it is adequate because the astronauts are breathing pure oxygen rather than the oxygen-nitrogen mix that they would get at sea level...
...panel's most distressing discovery was a stray steel chip, perhaps a burr from a screw, in an exhaust vent of the suit's oxygen supply system. If the fragment had been in the pure oxygen area and caused a spark (by hitting a wall, for example), it might have touched off a catastrophic flash fire, killing Lenoir and possibly ripping a fatal hole in Columbia's sides as well. In fact, a suit did catch fire in a test at Houston two years ago; fortunately no one was wearing it. It was so incinerated that...
...already exceeded everyone's expectations, including his own. Before the operation, Clark had told his son Stephen that he did not expect the surgery to succeed. By week's end, however, Dr. Peterson reported that Clark "had gone from a man who was blue from not enough oxygen before surgery to being pink." He was also talking, moving his arms and legs and, thanks to a stalwart plastic heart, beginning to enjoy a life on borrowed time...
...ironically on Hollywood's obsession with the Aryan ideal. But she can be, like Frances Farmer, both vulnerable and powerful. She works with a telling economy of gesture: nodding wearily as she listens to Odets' manifestoes, sucking desperately on a cigarette as if it contained the only oxygen in the room. Lange's inevitable Oscar nomination will be every bit as honestly earned as Streep...