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... AROUND THE WORLD IN NINETY MINUTES''' by Woodbury, D. O. ''New York, 1958: Harcourt, Brace and Company, Inc., 248 pages, $5. ...

... miles per hour— to notice this difference in the rate of time passing. Therefore minutes and hours will be the same length for space travelers as they are back on ...

... the announcement was in the evening newspaper in Washington D.C. . I waited until five minutes after eight Houston time to phone the Personnel Office, and the secretary said, “Oh yes ... thin film over the top, like saran wrap. You add water, and in nine minutes or eleven minutes, it turns into salmon salad or spaghetti, or , you know, everything. The texture did ... Utah State, I just concentrated on teaching. '''Wright:''' Well, as you said just a few minutes ago that you left right after /Challenger/. Of course, you had put your resignation in ...

... spring is made to St. John's, Newfoundland, which is reached in fourteen minutes. Here a few minutes are taken up in pointing the car accurately for Galway. Great caution is necessary ... the same manner as before, brought to a stand in Galway at 6 minutes to 8, just 30 minutes out from St. John's and 54 from Halifax. At 8 o'clock ... spring is made, and Paris is reached in 10 minutes. Another spring, and in 10 minutes more Strasbourg appears. Then successively: Munich in 8 minutes, Vienna in 10, Belgrade in 15, and lastly ...

... vital functions during our ascent, rendezvous and undocking. We no longer needed these systems. Fifteen minutes after the Instrumentation/ Propulsion Module powered the deorbit burn, we closed the visors on our ... forward cocking of our seats all happened within seconds of each other. Quite eventful 10 minutes before landing, we stowed unnecessary procedure books, tightened our restraint harnesses and powered on the ...

... of the Earth and are under the influence of the Moon. We did very detailed minute-by-minute return to Earth planning. Okay, if this happens now, then we'll have thirty ... home immediately, and there were still some options. We could do it for another thirty minutes or so, and we let the flight director and everybody else know about that. The ... 's good. But John could be extremely serious and then, boy, the next minute he's a laugh a minute. '''Butler:''' Quite a personality. '''Bostick:''' Quite a personality. '''Butler:''' Toward the end ...

... of your own hometown, flying at 18,000 miles, traverse the Earth once every 90 minutes, flies through a magnificently beautiful sunrise and sunset, every revolution, what, 16 of them every ... a good example. Of course that emergency, or the solution to that emergency, was minute by minute by minute in real time when it happened. But you try and go through anything and ... of the Earth. '''Cernan:''' Now, I'm going to give you -- okay wait a minute. Wait a minute. I want you to hold that up. You do what everybody in the world ...

... the first-stage blowup, for my watch it happened one minute before schedule because I was still waiting for the next minute. So I suddenly hear a big noise, “Brump,” and everything ... not moving because we’re doing long, very long-duration exposures, for more than one minute, filming faraway objects in the universe. So that was tricky, at least three people or ... compartment and to get ready. He was busy there. I would say, “Vladimir, in two minutes, we start deorbitation, and the door needs to be closed,” and Sasha Aleksandr Segeyevich Ivanchenkov ...

... hardware and results to Earth. Vladimir Titov and Scott Parazynski performed a 5 hour, 1 minute spacewalk during which they retrieved four experiments first deployed on Mir during the STS-76 ... or American-made spacesuits. Mission accomplished in 169 orbits in 10 days, 19 hours, 21 minutes. Organizations Special Honours Awarded the title of Hero of the Soviet Union, and recipient of ...

... looking at your calendar and timelining every minute of your day, it’s pretty hectic. '''Hansen:''' Down to five-minute increments. '''Clancy:''' Down to five-minute increments. Good point. Some stuff, we give ... . At least for this flight, they were pretty small payloads. So they were five-minute activities here, ten-minutes there. '''Ross-Nazzal:''' I didn’t read very much about that. '''Hansen:''' Yes ...

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