Word: skinful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...still riding in space, is a 30.8-lb. cylinder that reaches an apogee of 1,600 miles. Explorer VI, weighing 142 Ibs., is more complex and reaches higher than anything ever orbited around the earth-26,400 miles, with ellipses to a low perigee of 157 miles. Its aluminum skin encases scores of miniaturized scientific instruments that are already reporting facts on space (see SCIENCE) never before revealed...
...terrible feeling like my abdomen was bloated twice its size. My nose seemed to explode. For 30 seconds I thought the decompression had me," recounts Rankin. "It was a shocking cold all over. My ankles and wrists began to burn as though somebody had put Dry Ice on my skin. My left hand went numb. I had lost that glove when I went...
...accomplish these tasks, Explorer VI's 1/161n. aluminum skin shrouds the most intricate and talented collection of scientific instruments yet sent into space -all in a 29-in. by 26-in. ball that moves through its complete orbit once every twelve hours. One hoped-for result is the first relatively detailed map of the Van Allen belts, which present a formidable barrier to interplanetary flight. Previous earth satellites have not gone high enough to examine the enormous breadth of the Van Allen radiation. Pioneer IV obtained valuable information, but made only one trip through the belts before falling into...
...gazed at the greenish glow coming from a Crookes vacuum tube he had made. He put his left hand on the tube. It was warm. Grubbe (pronounced Grew-bay) was satisfied that the tube (useful only in scientific experiments) was working right. By summer's end, a severe skin irritation appeared on Grubbe's left hand. Dermatologists had no idea what it was. Then Grubbe heard that, from similar tubes, Wilhelm Konrad Roentgen had generated a new and mysterious form of radiation-X rays. "I knew then that I had been burned by X rays," says Grubbe...
...Lumpy Brannum, onetime bass fiddler for Fred Waring-brings along a variety of live animals, explains their habits to the kids; lately he has turned up with a midget pony, a coati, a kinkajou, and a ten-week-old Himalayan sun bear. Another colleague, Cosmo ("Gus") Allegretti, inhabits the skin of the durable Dancing Bear, is also the prime mover behind other sympathetic creatures-Bunny Rabbit, Mr. Moose and the somnolent Grandfather Clock. Without prompting devices. Actor Keeshan, 32, meanders around the set using man-to-man language that can make a four-year-old feel almost grown...