Word: steams
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...adventure involved far more than mere sightseeing in space. He encountered difficulties that turned his journey into a nightmare of suspense. Passing within radio range of Guaymas, Mexico, on his first orbit, his attitude control system began to act up. A small jet, designed to release hydrogen peroxide steam to keep the capsule in a stable position, was not working properly. The capsule, reported Glenn, "drifts off in yaw to the right at about one degree per second. It will go to 20 degrees and hold at that...
...Friendship 7 splashed into the Atlantic with a sizzle as the red-hot shield turned the sea water to steam. Surging ahead at flank speed, the destroyer Noa* began to race helicopters from the carrier Randolph to the scene. The Noa won, plucked the capsule out of the ocean at 3:01. Across the U.S., the TV audience sagged weakly with relief...
Rich Convergence. Early next April, when Eltanin begins her first year-long cruise at the start of the Antarctic winter, she will steam due south from Cape Horn until she reaches the solid pack ice of the Bellingshausen Sea. Then a quartering course will carry the ship many times across the "Antarctic Convergence," where cold water from the south dives under the warmer water of the Atlantic, Pacific and Indian oceans. This region boils with life, from tiny diatoms to whales, and marine biologists believe it may some day become the world's richest source of protein food...
Water pipes--The other day some hopeful soul turned on the cold. Clear as a mountain stream, the flow came out at 180 degrees F. The pipes, regrettably, had been run right alongside those containing steam...
...starting gate, eight skittish thoroughbreds pawed at the frozen ground and shot steam from flaring nostrils. Cold-numbed jockeys gripped the reins and tensed for the starter's signal. "They're off!" shouted Track Announcer Raymond Haight-but on the first turn, the horses disappeared in a blinding snowstorm. Haight gave up trying to call the race, made a mock appeal to the crowd: "If anybody knows who that horse is that's on top by four lengths, will he please call extension...