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... oxygen . The National Aeronautics and Space Administration has reason , though , to be apprehensive about pure oxygen atmo- spheres . In 1967 three prospective Apollo astronauts died in a flash fire in an Apollo module at Cape Kennedy ...
... oxygen . The National Aeronautics and Space Administration has reason , though , to be apprehensive about pure oxygen atmo- spheres . In 1967 three prospective Apollo astronauts died in a flash fire in an Apollo module at Cape Kennedy ...
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... oxygen alone . The potential savings from that method have not been put into the cost calculations made so far . The idea of using lunar oxygen for chemical rockets isn't new , by the way . Robert Goddard thought of it a half- century ...
... oxygen alone . The potential savings from that method have not been put into the cost calculations made so far . The idea of using lunar oxygen for chemical rockets isn't new , by the way . Robert Goddard thought of it a half- century ...
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... oxygen pressure in the bay was breathable . We have all five ships locked on the bay now , so any of us can go in ... oxygen from the bay into a cold - storage liquid oxygen tank , and open the end - bolts and take off one of the ...
... oxygen pressure in the bay was breathable . We have all five ships locked on the bay now , so any of us can go in ... oxygen from the bay into a cold - storage liquid oxygen tank , and open the end - bolts and take off one of the ...
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A Letter from Space | 1 |
The Planetary Hangup | 29 |
Islands in Space | 63 |
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