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...will not reflect at night in a stylishly sloping windshield. Under many daytime lighting conditions this shading makes the panel so dark that a driver cannot read it at a glance. To check on his fuel or how fast he is going, he must rest his eyes on the pane for an appreciable moment. When he looks back at the road, his eyes have partly adapted from the dim light. The bright light from the road may dazzle him for a moment-and it may be the wrong moment...
During a simulated countdown, the instructor, watching the trainee crew from behind the broad glass pane of a control room, punches his troublemaking buttons and watches the countdown as the crew takes corrective action and snaps out comments and orders in bizarre alphabet-soup missile talk: PDU pressure low. Valve L14 in open position. Get a MOCAM team out here ASAP...
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...relayed over the control-room loudspeaker. He felt fine, and all systems were working properly. At T plus 141 sec., officials told the waiting crowd that Liberty Bell 7 had separated successfully from the Redstone booster. The crowd clapped and yelled. Grissom looked out through his four-pane "picture window"-a new feature of the capsule-but was at first too dazzled to see much. "Boy," he reported, "that sun is really bright." Later he saw the clouded coastline far below, watched the sky grow blacker-and became so fascinated with the view that he could hardly drag himself back...
...window, some to open their laps to expectant children. The Santa Claus in the window delivers readings from something called "The Good Book," which presumably contains the names of every child in Boston (or at least all those fortunate enough to press their noses against Filene's front window-pane...