Word: weightless
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...heart will double its normal rate. The instruments before his eyes fade from view in a brown haze. The feet and arms are now difficult to move because they are eight times heavier than normal. Consciousness clouds, and for a moment he will wait in heavy, silent oppression. Weightless World. Then his body will become suddenly light, as the rocket burns out at last, and he commences the fall toward the center of the earth that will continue for 4^ hours. He will have dropped, as if over a precipice, into a still and weightless world. He will feel...
...force of the sun's light is extremely small-9X10-5 dynes per square centimeter, or about the weight of four cigarettes per acre of surface at the distance of the earth. But it is free and unfailing, and in the weightless, placid vacuum of space, large, frail sails might be spread to intercept it. For a starter, Dr. Cotter would like to try a 50-lb. space sailer. Once launched in the usual way to an orbit around the earth, the satellite would sprout a circular sail of thin plastic coated with shiny aluminum. If the satellite...
CHRIST walked the earth as a human being; yet for 13 centuries thereafter he was painted as a weightless, spiritual being, more in his divine aspect than in his human one. Then Giotto di Bondone, a Tuscan farmer's boy, broke the spell. He changed the course of art by proving that spirit and flesh, holiness and reality, could be pictured together as one image...
...plane's acceleration under the push of its rocket motor because of heavy G-load or because of its deceleration on slamming down into the atmosphere. But when the X-15 is on a ballistic trajectory above the atmosphere, with its engine cut off, the pilot will be weightless. He will then shift to a second stick that will give him better control in space-presumably by directional use of the steam jets. When he gets back to the lower atmosphere and conventional speeds, he will use the third stick, which operates in the conventional...
Producer Ivan Tors hovered weightlessly just out of camera range; fluttering near by were a director, a movie cameraman and a lighting expert. Tors's pretty secretary, Zale Parry, glided about the group, taking notes on a slate. The movie camera, encased in a weightless "blimp," focused on the desperate struggle of Actor Lloyd Bridges as he grappled with a villain who might have come from Mars...