Word: spaceships
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...hero, a jet-propelled Gulliver named Ulysse Mérou, lands his spaceship on a distant planet of the Betelgeuse system in the earth year 2502 and finds himself m a perfect replica of earthly society turned upside down. Men and women run naked through the wilds, hunted by beautifully tailored apes. Some are shot for sport, some are captured for scientific study. They are sent into trial space orbits, stuck in zoos, or utilized in medical experiments because they are, after all, physiologically very like the apes themselves. Ape scientists, in fact, believe that apes evolved coevally with...
ABOARD THE U.S.S. KEARSARGE, May 16--Maj. I. Gordon Cooper completed his 22-or bit space mission today, despite an electrical failure in his spaceship Faith 7 during the final orbits. Cooper landed in the Pacific at 6:24 1/2 p.m. (EST), only a minute and a half off schedule. By 7:11 he had stopped aboard the flight deck of this rescue ship-carrier...
...high priority because of the project to land live astronauts there, will be examined later this year by improved Rangers, and then by more elaborate craft. They will study the lunar surface so that larger craft, eventually carrying humans, can land there safely. Any astronaut touching down in a spaceship needs to know whether the surface below is hard rock or deep, soft dust, whether it is radioactive or made of wholly unknown moon-stuff that cannot exist on Earth...
...already planning to build them into remotely controlled locks for car trunks or motor hoods. They show promise of great value as relays for operating switches at a distance. And in the not too remote future they may help an orbiting astronaut make his way around his zero-gravity spaceship. Weightless, the space traveler would float aimlessly. With ceramic sandwiches in the soles' of his shoes and small batteries in his pocket, he could walk up metal walls or cross a ceiling using only a pair of pushbuttons to control his magnetic footing...
...necessarily, Aerodynamicist Robert Brodsky told the Institute of the Aerospace Sciences in Manhattan last week. Spaceships, like ocean liners, said Dr. Brodsky, can carry lifeboats. When stowed on board, a Brodsky-designed lifeboat will be a cylinder of strong, heat-resistant plastic up to 1 yd. in diameter, 11 ft. long, and weighing about 1,000 lbs. Inside will be an airtight capsule large enough to hold one man lying face down. A crewman bailing out will crawl into the capsule and detach the lifeboat from the spaceship. As soon as it is clear, nitrogen gas from a pressure vessel...