Word: hatched
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...body of dissolved nitrogen and avoid the possibility of bends). He then entered an air lock, sealed his suit, gradually lowered its pressure to about 3 lbs. per sq. in. (so that it would be less inflated and more flexible) and only then was able to open the outer hatch and step into space, still breathing pure oxygen. By contrast, U.S. astronauts, always breathing oxygen at reduced pressures, can step directly out of their cabin into space...
...exterior source. The trio climbed inside the ship, hooked up their silver suits to the environmental control system (which feeds oxygen to the suits and purifies the air in the cabin), snapped their faceplates shut and waited while the suits became pressurized. At 2:50 p.m., the airtight double hatch plates were sealed. And the familiar routine began, an infinitely detailed run-through that was scheduled to last slightly more than five hours...
...same instant, a couple of technicians standing on a level with the craft windows saw a blinding flash inside the ship. Heavy smoke began to seep from the capsule, filling the white room. A workman sprinted across the catwalk leading to the craft, tried desperately to loosen the hatch cover. He was driven back by the intense heat and smoke, but half a dozen other technicians, some wearing face masks and asbestos gloves, raced to help. One or two would try to wrench open the hatch, then fall back from the scorching heat while others struggled with it. Six minutes...
...Shepard's historic Project Mercury flight. Five weeks later, Gus roared out of obscurity aboard Liberty Bell 7 as the second American in space. His 118-mile-high suborbital flight was a success, but the splashdown in the Atlantic ended in near-disaster when the capsule hatch inexplicably blew off, swamping Grissom inside. Gus swam from the sinking craft and was rescued by helicopter. Though he was in no way to blame for the mishap, he inevitably became known to the public as the astronaut who lost his capsule. He became more reticent, withdrew even more than usual...
...everyone who signs up for Bicker is supposed to get into a club. Last year only one Princeton man didn't make it. He seemed resigned to his fate. He had effectively rejected the system and even developed his own rational. "The clubs strike me as being an escape hatch, as being void of any kind of reality. The idea of being buddy-buddy just bothers me," he said...