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Pressure Suit

Pressure Suit

Jim Sokolik shows off how a pressure suit inflates for pilots at NASA's Dryden Flight Research Center.
Word of the Day
turtling
  • The act or method of catching turtles; the business of a turtler.
  • Any slow progression or build-up.
  • in gaming, a defensive strategy of avoiding conflict, usually in a fixed position.
'Turtle' may be an alteration of 'tortoise,' which may come from the Late Latin 'tartaruchus,' of the underworld.
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Our passionate preoccupation with the sky, the stars, and a God somewhere in outer space is a homing impulse. We are drawn back to where we came from.

- Eric Hoffer (1902 - 1983)
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