Word: spaceships
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...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...
...past the stars, Yuri could study his surroundings through three heat-resistant portholes. Even if he spotted no landmarks 188 miles below, he could get his bearings by watching an "optical orientator"-a cockpit globe synchronized to turn with the 18,000-mile-an-hour flight of the orbiting spaceship...
...hasty attempt to deprecate the success of Russia's man-carrying spaceship, President Kennedy got lost in an old scientific daydream. Cheap fresh water extracted from salt water, he said, would benefit humanity enough to dwarf any other scientific accomplishment. This hope, that desalted sea water may make the deserts bloom as the rose, has long been popular. It has stirred speculative flurries on the stock exchanges; it can almost always get money out of Congress. Five big pilot desalting plants backed with federal money are now scheduled or already under construction. But the experts who came...