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...crew of an orbiting spaceship, the earth below may seem a multicolored haven-distant blue oceans and brown-and-green continents flecked with white clouds. But well-trained astronauts will know that a dangerous ordeal-a flaming return through the atmosphere-stands between them and home. Only one man, Major Yuri Gagarin of the U.S.S.R., has made such a descent. Last week in Pravda he described the long dive...
...Moon (Michael Relph; Trans-Lux) is a noodly British farce made by a crew of subversives who have obviously heard more than they care to hear about astronauts and rocket scientists. It seems that the National Atomic Research, Spaceship Testing and Information Bureau (NARSTI) wants to test its new moonship with a guinea pig before sending up a crew of expensively trained cosmonauts. He must be a human guinea pig, because a guinea-pig guinea pig would be an affront to the animal-doting British public. NARSTI's choice is a cheerful clod (Kenneth More) who has been fired...
...fruit juice, so that the weightless spacemen can drink by squeezing the liquids into their mouths. Built under Air Force contract, the Space Kitchen weighs 818 lbs., of which only 236 lbs. is food. But as of now, there is no rocket big enough to launch a kitchen-equipped spaceship...
...Aerojet-General Corp., "with the body of a man who dies on a space voyage?" Answering their own question, they pointed out that "there will be no 'ground' in which to bury the man. The coldest scientific efficiency would be to place the corpse in the spaceship's 'digester' system. However, the digester system will be one that receives all of the astronauts' waste materials and regenerates them as food and water. So disposing of the cadaver in this way would simply be too revolting because of the cannibalistic implications. Thus the most palatable...
...President pinned the National Aeronautics and Space Administration's Distinguished Service Medal on Shepard's chest. At Grand Bahama Island, where Shepard was debriefed after his ride, an airport was to be named after him. At New Jersey's Palisades Amusement Park, an earth-bound spaceship was renamed the Commander Alan B. Shepard Jr. Rocket Ride...