Word: spaceship
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Good Old Rules? To start it off, the Soviet Union orbited the earth's first three-passenger spaceship, indicating that the Russians maintain at least a two-year lead over the U.S. The overthrow of Nikita Khrushchev raised anew the question of what kind of Communist enemy the U.S. faces. The election of a new Labor government in Britain posed for the U.S. the problem of establishing a new set of relationships with one of its oldest, staunchest allies. And the news that Communist China had exploded a nuclear device revived vivid fears in the hearts of many peoples...
ROBINSON CRUSOE ON MARS. Science fiction and scientific fact plausibly commingle in this stimulating attempt to imagine the problems of an astronaut who is spaceship-wrecked on Mars...
...like low-grade coal. On the third day, oxygen gone, he discovers that the rocks release it when they are heated, and in jig time he rigs up a pressure cooker and replenishes his tanks. A few days later, led by the small South American monkey that shared his spaceship, he finds a spring of clear water, and in the water a plant that bears edible tubers...
Painfully Solemn. Some of them insist that it was caused by a comet; others prefer to believe that a huge, extraterrestrial spaceship crashed in Siberia, or perhaps jettisoned nuclear fuel that exploded and dug the crater. In 1959, an expedition of students from Tomsk University claimed to have found that the area is still radioactive, and so many Russians accepted their observations that the Soviet Academy of Sciences sent its own expedition-which found no abnormal radioactivity...
...vacuum of space, the properly suited explorer will have to be equipped with clothing that will let him work and move about actively. Outside a spaceship, where he may be called upon to make repairs, he will have to maneuver in zero gravity; his clothing will have toward off solar heating twice as strong as on the earth's surface. Any space suit will have to be equipped with a portable oxygen supply and its own air-conditioning apparatus...