Word: takeoffs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...late March the group will be thinned to an even dozen space pioneers. Then will come the training program itself-"flights"' in a centrifuge simulating conditions during high-acceleration takeoff and quick-deceleration re-entry into the earth's atmosphere, flights in Mercury capsules carried by balloons. Finally, just before the big moment comes-perhaps three or four years hence-the first space-bound Mercury Astronaut will be named. The others will be expected to try subsequent flights...
...capsule will be launched by an intercontinental ballistic missile (presumably an Atlas or its successor). The pilot will lie on his back on a padded couch to reduce the effects of g forces, reckoned to hit more than seven times the force of gravity during the acceleration after takeoff. In his tiny enclosure, he will be surrounded by an atmosphere of endurable temperature and pressure. He will have food and water in case he feels like eating or drinking, and a two-way voice radio will keep him in touch with the ground stations. There will be no window...
Emoto took his bride aboard an All Nippon Airways DC-3, put her in a front seat, himself took a seat beside the plane door. The stewardess noted that he watched carefully how she bolted the door, but thought nothing of it. After the takeoff. Emoto, clearly restless, went three times to the plane's toilet, each time taking a blue canvas bag with him. After the third trip, Emoto returned to his seat still carrying his bag. He looked ill and asked for a glass of water. Returning with it, the stewardess was just in time...
...Army Jupiter with Little Old Reliable aboard got off its Cape Canaveral launching pad in a perfect takeoff. Atop the passenger's head was a tiny helmet with a microphone attached to record vocal sounds, and fitted into the little compartment were assorted instruments to measure heartbeat rate, blood pressure, body temperature, breathing rate. During the first few minutes of flight, while the missile was accelerating under the thrust of its engines, telemetering devices reported slowed-down and irregular breathing, slightly speeded-up heartbeat. Then, during about eight minutes of weightlessness while the missile was in ballistic flight, breathing...
...tower cleared 72 Bravo for takeoff, and Goldwater lifted the Beech up, over the emerald quiltwork of irrigation land, over the purple Rincon peaks, over the state whose every wrinkle he knows and loves, heading southeast for the first stop of the day in his campaign to defend his U.S. Senate seat against Democratic Governor Ernest McFarland...