Word: oxygenation
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...opportunity to fly and fight alongside men like Obenauf that keeps most of us strapped into that oxygen mask...
...altitude gave the newsmen soroche -high-altitude sickness. Forced to run through crowds to keep up with Nixon, most came down with splitting headaches and failing memories. Hardest hit was Associated Press Photographer Henry Griffin, 46, who had to take deep draughts from a heavy oxygen tank he toted on his back. Cracked Griffin: "Let's get off this hill -I want to die breathing...
Atmosphere. The space capsule, like the pressure suit within it. will be pressurized at about 7½ Ibs. per sq. in. -the pressure normally found at 18,000 ft. Instead of ordinary air (21% oxygen), it will be filled with an artificial atmosphere containing at least 40% oxygen, to give the spaceman the same quantity of oxygen he would enjoy at sea level. During launching and reentry, the space pilot will have his pressure suit inflated. In relaxed, straightaway flight, he will be able to deflate his suit, open his visor and rely on cabin air. The air will...
...difficulties of food, drink and elimination snowball. Weight is the first, worst foe of the rocketeer trying to get a manned capsule into space, so everything that can possibly be saved and re-used must be conserved. Hence the futuristic proposals that in addition to recycling his oxygen supply (perhaps with elaborate photolysis, to break down the accumulating carbon dioxide), the space pilot will have to recycle his body wastes. Extraction of palatable water, though still not perfected, might be practicable for space flight if the equipment weight could be cut down. One suggestion for maintaining a near-perpetual cycle...
...Starfighter-50,000 ft., then 60,000, then 70,000. Laconically, Johnson radioed Edwards tower, made certain that the radar trackers still carried him on their screens. Now, 80,000 ft.: Johnson's pressurized cockpit altitude was 45,000 ft., and his pressure suit automatically inflated with oxygen from a bottle beneath his seat. His afterburner had long since lost nearly all its thrust, but Johnson kept coasting up. At length he knew that he could no longer hold the nose up in the thinning atmosphere, slacked off on the stick, nosed up and over, began the long drop...