Word: return
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...marked in advance as men of destiny. Within approximately two years, one of the seven would be chosen -perhaps by lot-to test for the first time whether a human can be shot beyond the atmosphere to orbit the earth from 125 miles up at 18,000 m.p.h. and return to tell about...
Meanwhile, the space vehicle, the Air Force's Atlas ICBM, will get a series of tests, with animals riding the capsules in some flights. After Astronauts and vehicle have checked out so that chances of successful probe and return are 96% to 98% -the same as the maiden flight of any experimental aircraft-the day of flight will be set. On that day the first man will be designated...
...fall. He will be gravity-free. If he moves an extremity, he will find that it will remain placed where he put it. He will find comfort in stretching his arm to one side and leaving it there. Soon after entry into the gravity-free state, his vision will return. His respiration will become steady and slow. His heart will still run fast from the excitement, but he will not be uncomfortable, not even afraid. He may wonder if this uncontrollable thing may suddenly and prematurely rush him back to earth again...
...Question. Then, as quickly as it went away, the peculiar daylight of space will return. Again there will be no twilight, just darkness-then light in the space cabin. And then, just before he completes the first orbit, a query will come from earth: Is the physical condition of the vehicle and his physiological condition adequate for another or possibly two more orbits? He will have to search the ship, his body, and his soul for the correct answer to this question. No doubt he will have every indication that his ship is adequate. He will know little about...
...handful of public stockholders (some 200), the picture was not quite as grey as that figure indicated. The Spruce Falls Power & Paper Co. Ltd., in which the Times holds a 42% interest, turned a tidy profit of $1,119,307. Preferred shareholders earned an 8% return on their investment-1% better than in 1957-and the Times chalked up its 61st consecutive year in the black...