Word: spaceships
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...flight proved more conclusively than anything before it that man is adaptable to the challenges and rigors of space. Though it would be many days before doctors could tell whether "Gordo" Cooper and "Pete" Conrad suffered any really bad effects from the prolonged weightlessness and confinement in their spaceship, they appeared to have nothing worse than stiff joints, heavy beards and nagging itches. Cooper apparently came through better than on his first, 22-orbit flight two years ago; his heartbeat averaged 89 then, about 70 this time...
Moments after the capsule was dropped from the C-119, a small drogue parachute opened to keep the spaceship from tumbling. Then a larger chute yanked loose the cover of a container, letting a 70-ft, red-white-and-blue "parasail" spill out in rippling folds...
When the full set of Martian pictures taken by the spaceship Mariner IV was released last week, Mariner's earth-bound master, Physicist William H. Pickering, had the White House itself as his gallery. President Johnson was on hand to present awards to Pickering and two other Mariner scientists.* For cautious experts, the best of the photographs neither proved nor precluded the possible existence of life on Mars, although the planet's rugged terrain seemed hardly hospitable enough for the hardiest of bacteria. The pictures were clearer and sharper than anyone had expected. At least one of them...
Planning for Trouble. Well past mid-point in its journey, the spaceship was sailing along smoothly. No problems, only precedents. On April 29, when Mariner reached a straight-line distance from earth of 66 million miles, it surpassed the record for long-distance space communications set two years ago by the unsuccessful Russian Mars 1 probe...
...flight promised "to knock down an awful lot of straw men. We had been told that we would have an unconscious astronaut after four days of weightlessness. Well, they're not. We were told that the astronaut would experience vertigo, disorientation when he stepped out of that spaceship. We hit that one over the head...