Word: backpacking
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Outside his orbiting capsule in his own space suit, an astronaut will be a man beset by problems. A brief pulse of power from a backpack rocket will start him moving in any direction he desires, but it will take another carefully calculated pulse to stop him, still others to move him up, down, backward or into a turn. How will he handle the continuous need to control his versatile little rocket without letting that one job keep him too busy for other useful work...
...space-suit plans call for exchangeable equipment: a massive propulsive backpack for use in weightless space, and lighter suits emphasizing oxygen and cooling apparatus for exploring the moon. These suits have not reached the rigorous testing stage, in which men will wear them in a vacuum chamber under the glare of simulated space radiation. Less ambitious suits for emerging from Gemini capsules are farther advanced. Like the suit worn by Leonov. they will carry their own oxygen and cooling equipment and also trail an umbilical cord as an extra safety measure. They are designed to support life in a vacuum...
...millions perfecting the intermediate-range, nuclear-tipped Jupiter missile (no kin to Jupiter-C), only to have it taken away by the Department of Defense and given to the Air Force. Other sorely needed Army funds were spent on such Buck Rogers gimmicks as the one-man helicopter and backpack rockets that would turn an infantryman into a flyboy capable of clearing a building...
...green leaves like a streak of new blood; to know again that water has taste as well as temperature, to drink sloppily and desperately because his mouth is dry and his tongue too big for his mouth; to eat the fat trout quickly cooked after the catching; to backpack his gear through glades and trails and to know the relief of rest; to climb high along the creature trails, grabbing suddenly for a fall-saving hold on a limb...
Ezekiel's "four living creatures." each with four wings, who came out of a whirlwind, writes Aircraft Mechanics Instructor Arthur W. Orton, were really space visitors equipped with four-bladed, backpack helicopters. They wore transparent space helmets ("And the likeness of the firmament upon the heads of the living creatures was as the color of the terrible crystal"), and their "four faces"-of a man, a lion, an ox and an eagle-were the prophet's description of their respiratory and walkie-talkie apparatus. The whirling of their jet-tipped helicopter blades made Ezekiel's fiery "wheels...