Word: window
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Outside Walter's window the visitor can see workers constructing a huge new House Office Building. A pleased Walter says HUAC will be moving there in a few years...
...first tourist in orbital space. He had little sensation of speed. It was, he said, "about the same as flying in an airliner at, say, 30,000 feet, and looking down at clouds at 10,000 feet." During the daylight hours, he peered out his cabin window at the earth far below. Over California, he spotted part of the Imperial Valley to his left, and the Salton Sea; he could even pick out the irrigated acres around El Centro, where he once lived. Looking down on the Atlantic, he saw the Gulf Stream as a river of blue. Cabin temperature...
...braced himself. Timed by a preset mechanism in the capsule, the braking rockets fired in sequence. Friendship 7 shuddered. "It feels like I'm going clear back to Hawaii," Glenn radioed. He could feel his body beginning to be squeezed by the buildup of G forces. Outside the window, he could see a fiery glow. It grew brighter and brighter. "It became apparent that something was tearing up the heat shield end of the capsule." Glenn said later. "There were large pieces anywhere from as big as the end of your finger to seven or eight inches in diameter that...
...designer and builder of the spacecraft. Glenn's own Friendship 7 (which he named himself after consulting his family) was tailor-made to his specifications. He color-coded his instrument panel, arranged the 165 meters, dials, toggles, levers and lamps to suit his taste, and marked guidelines on his window to help gauge his observations...
...layers of shook-up material tumble down after it. As the LASL News, house organ of the Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory, describes it in somewhat unscientific terms: "It sort of takes a guy by surprise. You hear a kind of crunching sound and you look out of the window. Half an hour ago when the bomb went off, it was plain old flat, sandy Yucca Flats. All of a sudden it's a hole big enough to float a small fleet if you had any water...