Word: hatched
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...finale and Astronaut Aldrin's record-breaking total of 5 hrs. 36 min. of EVA (extra vehicular activity) relieved NASA officials of the nagging fear that they had overestimated man's ability to work in space. During two stand-up photographic sessions through his open hatch and a 129-minute "space walk," Aldrin experienced none of the difficulties encountered during earlier EVAs. He completed his assigned tasks without becoming overheated or exhausted...
...racing across the Pacific at 1,060 m.p.h. during Saturday's eclipse of the sun. In the brief seven seconds that they flew through the corridor of total eclipse, the astronauts shot movies and still pictures of the blacked-out solar disk. Then, standing in the open hatch of his orbiting platform, Astronaut Aldrin shot pictures of the earth and the stars for 2 hours and 28 minutes-longer than anyone has spent continuously outside his craft in space...
...four more were being readied in a hangar bay far below, when a shouting sailor burst from a 15-ft.-square locker near by. Be hind him was an ominously hissing stack of 700 Mark-24 magnesium parachute flares. He barely had time to dog down the hatch on the locker and race for a phone when the flares began to explode. Fire bells clanged; klaxons sounded the call to general quarters. Loudspeakers shrilled: "This is no drill! This is no drill...
...hangar deck: three of them were already laden with bombs; the fourth, a tanker, carried 900 gal. of JB5 jet fuel. The fire fighters watched in helpless horror as the steel bulkheads of the flare locker started ballooning under the 7,000° heat inside. The steel hatch blasted open with a great gout of flame that engulfed the hangar and sent fire balls rocketing down every passageway, igniting two helicopters. Five sailors were burned alive...
...seed" California's rice fields and, eventually, the flood plains in California and other states. He envisons the day when many of the intermittently flooded fields in the U.S. will be rich in pearlfish eggs. Then as spring rains herald another flood season, millions of eggs will hatch, providing nature's own form of instant mosquito control...