Word: hatched
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Within the cabin, pressure soared from 16.7 lbs. per sq. in. to 29 Ibs. per sq. in., rupturing the cabin wall. Robert Van Dolah, a Bureau of Mines explosives expert and a member of the investigatory panel, testified that an escape hatch capable of being opened in two or three seconds could have saved the crew. Such a hatch is now being manufactured, but the one used in Apollo took 90 seconds to open, even in normal circumstances...
...Also, pure oxygen will not be used at 16 Ibs. per sq. in. during routine manned ground tests as it was that day: the higher pressure meant that the fire spread five times as fast as it would have in a normal atmosphere. A new quick-opening hatch is also being designed, and the surprising number of combustible items aboard-including the astronauts' own space suits and the craft's insulating foam-are being redesigned using materials that are more fire-resistant...
...otherwise alright, he can pull himself in, hand over hand, on the rigid tether. If he is unconscious, the loose tether can be gently reeled in, then made rigid to stop him in relation to the spacecraft, then reeled again, and so on until he reaches the hatch...
Reasonable Doubt. Rejection is only part of the process. Lawyers exploit voir dire as their only chance to make friends with individual jurors. They joke, flatter, hatch homilies and seek what Manhattan's Stanley Reiben calls "transference of identity." All the while, the defense attorney struggles to get across the law's presumption that a man is innocent until he is proved guilty beyond a reasonable doubt. As Houston's Walter F. Walsh points out: "Many jurors will not and cannot, within the confines of conscience, find a defendant not guilty just because there...
...prevent another such disaster, the space officials said they were working on a new Apollo escape hatch that could be opened in two seconds in a ground emergency. Less flammable materials are also being studied for space suits and the spacecraft interior. As a further precaution, the Apollo cabin during future ground tests will probably be filled with normal air, rather than the pure oxygen that fed the fire...