Word: tanks
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...accustom themselves to the weightlessness of space, Young and Crippen have donned pressurized suits and entered a water tank, where they performed flight operations in an orbiter model. But perhaps the most important drills have involved the crucial moments of takeoff and landing. Unless the blast-off is precise, says Young, "you can almost leave the wings sitting on the ground. You have to thread that needle very carefully." The risk in landing is that Columbia will swoop down with no power; there would thus be no way of correcting a mistake...
...client sips a cup of peppermint tea, takes a shower, then pads along a plastic-covered carpet into a dim room lighted by two candles and filled with the soothing recorded sounds of wind chimes and bird chirps. He steps into a flotation tank and lies down in 8 in. of water laced with 800 Ibs. of dissolved Epsom salts and heated to 93°F. He glides back and forth once or twice, feeling weightless because of the high buoyancy, then settles back, secure in the knowledge that he is one of the earliest consumers of a modish...
...tank's owner is Human Potential Counselor Alma Daniel, 45, a veteran of the self-awareness movement who, by her count, has attended 52 consciousness-expanding workshops in the past six years. She installed the tank last April in a bedroom of her 25th-floor Manhattan apartment. Now five people a week shed their clothes, as well as their sense of time and space, and for $25 spend one hour exploring their psyches in the Epsom tub or simply enjoying a good soak...
Behavioral Scientist John Lilly, known also for his experimental work on dolphin communication, developed the tank in the 1950s. It is similar to the tanks that helped scramble the brain of the Lilly-like hero of the new sci-fi movie Altered States and turn him briefly, and improbably, into a pseudo ape. Tank centers have opened in most states, and a few therapists are using the tank as a successor to the Freudian couch, or in a search for ASC (altered states of consciousness, in the lingo) or OOB (out-of-the-body experiences). "What I'm experiencing...
...Daniel's clients, or "voyagers," is a New York television executive who was given his first soak as a Christmas present a year ago. After a hard week of traveling, he says, "I fly back to New York, drop my bags, sort my mail and take a tank. It kind of gives me a stop." Other Daniel clients combine the tank with traditional talk therapy before and after the Epsom bath. Though few have followed his lead, Lilly used the tank as a supplement to his own Freudian therapy. "It carried the psychoanalytic method one step further," he said...