Word: sunlights
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Young engineers set a strange contraption in the sunlight and watch it click and squirm and eerily point toward the sun. Colleagues gather to admire, their talk tangled with figures and newborn jargon. Nothing is simple at Goddard. In the corner of a control room is a small telephone switchboard attended by a bored young man. It looks as if it belonged in a flyblown small-town hotel, but it has a space-age name, SCAMA (Switching, Conferencing and Monitoring Arrangement), and it is the center of the world's only global voice communication network. By flicking a switch...
...separated from the rocket nose and sailed smoothly ahead. Then the canister split in two halves; the released balloon began to inflate, its folded segments billowing outward as 52 lbs. of powdered benzoic acid in its interior turned to gas. At first the balloon formed an irregular watermelon shape, sunlight glittering on its irregular surfaces. Then the skin tightened into a polished sphere...
...terrain itself provides the ultimate drama, beauty and terror of the film: cascading rock-strewn rivers that can smash an outrigger like a coconut shell, the green deep-pile carpeting of the rain forest, so dense that only needles of sunlight ever filter through to the dank jungle floor, the incessant droning whine of insects, and the voracious, slimy leeches, the size of amputated little fingers, that have to be burned off the skin. In New Guinea, the cruelest headhunter is still Nature...
...coal a man shovels, or how much tennis he plays, or how far he walks. But man's nervous system is a data-processing mechanism that regulates the rate and rhythm of the heart without regard to the volume or energy of the signals it receives. Bright sunlight or a thunderclap may have no effect on the heart; a vital message read in semidarkness or a whisper that "A.T. & T. has fallen 30 points" may send the heart racing faster than it would during a hard set of tennis...
...center of the window, and the booster is off to the right slightly." During his flight, Carpenter was supposed to complete several experiments that Glenn had been unable to carry out because of attitude-control system problems. He was scheduled to photograph cloud formations, test for the polarization of sunlight, look for comets close to the sun, take eye and balance tests, and exercise with a thick rubber band. But on the first orbit Carpenter began maneuvering the capsule by the "fly-by-wire" system, a semiautomatic device something like power steering on an automobile. As a result, he fell...