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...specter of fire in a man-carrying spacecraft has long haunted NASA scientists. In the pure-oxygen cabin atmospheres of U.S. craft, it seemed all too probable that a random spark from electrical equipment or insulation overheated by a short circuit might touch off fires that would blaze with explosive fury...
...built-in darkroom aided Orbiter's remarkable performance. Unlike Ranger spacecraft, or the Surveyor that made a soft landing and televised relatively coarse pictures directly to earth, Orbiter focused the images from its medium and high-resolution lenses onto a fine-grain strip of film. After each section of the film was exposed, it was passed over a drum and pressed against a web treated with chemicals that developed it. After drying, the negative was scanned electronically, one narrow (one-tenth of an inch) strip at a time. Because each strip was electronically divided into 17,000 horizontal lines...
...triumphant end of NASA's remarkably fruitful Gemini program. Since March 1965, the Gemini astronauts have made ten manned flights, rendezvoused ten times with target vehicles, docked nine times, and set a host of other space records. They have also proved that man can fly as safely in spacecraft as in airplanes, and that NASA's complex plans for placing men on the moon are basically sound...
...major problem of previous space walkers-the exhausting effort required to position and steady themselves in space-NASA scientists provided Aldrin with a number of new body restraints. Borrowing from window-washer technology, they fitted him with two harnesses that could be hooked to rings strategically placed around the spacecraft. In addition, he carried two flatiron-shaped handholds that had their bottoms covered with Velcro, an adhesive-like nylon material. When Aldrin slapped his handholds against patches of Velcro plastered on the skin of both Gemini and Agena, they stuck until he pulled them free, providing additional anchors in space...
...Hills, is just what happened to them. A few minutes after the sighting, Barney Hill turned the car down a side road, impelled by some extrasensory command. There, half a dozen humanoid creatures with wall eyes, metallic skin, rudimentary mouths and a grasp of English led them aboard a spacecraft and inspected the captives separately. Barney's removable dentures mystified his examiners; so did the dissimilarity between his skin and his wife's-he is a Negro; she.is white. A 6-in. needle was inserted into Betty's navel; she was told it was a pregnancy test...