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... the handling of that oxygen tank and the anomalous way in which it had been emptied, I believe, after a test, as I recall, and were able therefore to pinpoint the ... diet. He wouldn’t give us anything extra to eat except lemon drops. Empty calories. "You can have some empty calories, but I don’t want you taking any minerals, I don ... final de-orbit. It was a service propulsion system burn. Even on a fairly lightweight, empty service module, it’s only about a 1-G. We’re taking it in the ...

... responsible for the dynamics between all those vehicles. And we were given pretty much an empty, what I call the cargo bay, the Shuttle, and we had whatever it took as ... if you picture behind the pilots' seats as just empty racks, with no instruments or switches in it, and the cargo bay totally empty, that's where we started and then we ...

... during a system, the propellant tank, you know, it's a big tank, so you empty it. Pretty soon it gets where it's over half full of gas or two ... pressure on the tank of 200 psi. As you burn propellant and as the propellant emptied the tank, it just kept putting more pressure, and then you used that pressure—you ... dog shaking, and it just hosed out its propellant. I mean, the tank was just emptying. I remember I wasn't working on it, but Mel come running in, and said ...

... through Apollo 17, as far as I remember. But basically to get the tanks out, empty, they had a tube that went all the way to the bottom of them, and you brought in some outside pressure and forced the fluid back out. That’s to empty the tank in preparation for the next tanking, which, I don’t know, would be ... out, which meant we couldn’t drain it. So the way they got the tank empty was those cryo tank heaters that we use to keep it pressurized, they usually applied ...

... same day that the first box of the Apollo simulator was arriving in this big empty building. It was a brand-new building, they just finished building it. That was my ... I got there that first day, there was nothing to do. There was a big empty building. There were four other guys that had been hired before me—and we’ll ... is not a simulator problem; this is a physical EVA problem with mock-ups. The empty parts of the building, there’s lots of room, so they had mock-ups there ...

... Aircraft Co.’s Missile and Space Systems Div., outlined to the group plan for converting empty hydrogen tank from Saturn V ’s 3rd stage into manned space capsule. For conversion, series ... to operate fuel cells for producing electricity. An Apollo or Gemini spacecraft would dock with empty 3rd stage, and astronauts would emerge to remove end cover plate in end of the ...

... airlines) that had became destructively competitive, with an estimated equivalent of 8 jumbo jets flying empty between the U.S. and Britain every day. The British view was that restricting the ... at a disadvantage against European national carriers, increasing the use of charter groups to fill empty seats on scheduled flights, and securing greater equality in so-called fifth and sixth freedoms ...

... . (NASA Release 78-178) Thiokol Corp.'s Wasatch Div. had delivered the last of eight empty solid-fuel rocket motor-case segments to MARSHALL SPACE FLIGHT CENTER MSFC for use in ... the end of 1978. All the elements would be returned to the stand, including the empty motor-case segments, for final vibration-test phase simulating the actual Space Shuttle situation just ...

... does not account for most of the matter in the clusters. Instead, a separate, relatively empty patch of space had exerted a gravitational pull on the gas, thereby slowing it down ... results, the astronomers concluded that dark matter had exerted the gravitational pull from the apparently empty area of space. ''NASA, “NASA Finds Direct Proof of Dark Matter,” news release 06-297 ...

... years to be proven wrong. As you can well imagine, my glass has been half-empty for three decades. Fortunately now it's half-full as long as we continue to ... we don't want to see and have happen again. My cup has been half-empty for a long time. But Station is the only game in town, so we got ...

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