Word: ultraviolet
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...outside air. The rest of the building will make use of three separate air exhaust systems, not counting the systems used by the infectious disease center. Before the air from these other three system used by air from these other three systems is exhausted it will pass over an ultraviolet light source for sterilization...
Russian Bugs. Not worth it, says a study group led by Biologist Norman Horowitz of the California Institute of Technology. In a report in Science, the scientists argue that Mars has too little oxygen or water and too much ultraviolet radiation to support the growth of earthly organisms, and that Venus apparently has surface temperatures high enough to kill any earthly bugs. In any event, the report says, there is little chance that organisms entrapped within solid structures in the spacecraft could work their way free. Thus it is important only to kill microorganisms on the exposed surfaces...
...your partner's smooth motion becomes a panorama of frozen positions superimposed on each other. Soon an IBM computer will be moved in to help control the blinking red and blue lights. And if you take your date over to a corner, about all you can see in the ultraviolet light is her glowing blouse and nail-polish...
...Ultraviolet Photography. While they waited to catch up, Young and Collins turned to their scheduled EVA (extravehicular activity). After securing their helmet face plates, they switched to their space-suit oxygen systems, and depressurized Gemini's cabin. Then Astronaut Collins swung open his hatch and stood up, sticking out into space from his waist...
Using a camera loaded with ultraviolet-sensitive film, he shot spectrograms of several stars. Because ultraviolet is largely absorbed by the earth's atmosphere, the spectrograms could give astronomers a good look at the stars' composition and behavior and provide added information about their origin. As Gemini-Agena passed into daylight, Collins mounted a plate marked with colored patches of red, yellow, blue and grey, shot a series of test pictures that should help determine how the conditions of space affect color photography...