Word: space
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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While preparing for the rigors of outer space, the nation's seven Project Mercury Astronauts (TIME, April 20) also familiarized themselves with the hazards of plain water, which they will not find on any lunar expedition but might encounter on their return to earth. The space pioneers, learning how to cope with an impromptu dunking in underwater-survival school at a Navy base in Norfolk: Air Force Captain Leroy G. Cooper Jr., 32, Navy Lieut. Commander Walter M. Schirra Jr., 36, Navy Lieut. Malcolm S. Carpenter, 33, Navy Lieut. Commander Alan B. Shepard Jr., 35, Air Force Captain Donald...
...sealed space craft, what becomes of the body heat generated by a passenger? A guinea pig wrapped in a plastic bag would boil to death in its own heat in 15 minutes. And a man in an airtight capsule would cook himself in seven minutes. Last week Project Mercury researchers reported they had found a solution to the problem. The spaceman's body heat will be absorbed by a circulating water system. The water will boil, and the steam will be vented into space in a long, thin, man-made vapor trail...
...Gubin for the planyorka, or editorial conference. At the same time, 14 blocks north, Pavel A. Satyukov, editor in chief of Pravda (Truth), Moscow's other big morning paper, summoned the top members of his staff. There was no debate over policy. There was some debate about space allotments, e.g., between the Department of Propaganda and the Department of Soviet Constructions. But the planyorka was no more than a ritual. Within 15 minutes it was over at both papers. The editors filed back to their cubbyholes (there are no city rooms), ate fruit from common bowls, and followed orders...
...flowing endlessly in the Cyrillic alphabet, along the top of Izvestia's façade. Their newsmen earn surprisingly good salaries: a junior reporter on Pravda 's local 120-man staff gets 1,500 rubles ($375) a month base pay, plus an average of $250 more in space rates. Besides this
...work of the handful of pioneers who blazed the way for modern shell structures. One of the foremost and least known is Engineer Eduardo Torroja y Miret, 59. A short (5 ft. 4½ in.), bald-domed Spaniard, Torroja was throwing wafer-thin slabs of concrete up into space as early as 1933. His race-track stands, soccer stadiums, marketplaces, churches and aqueducts are only now getting the recognition they deserve as ancestors of some of today's most spectacular engineering feats...