首页
外语
计算机
考研
公务员
职业资格
财经
工程
司法
医学
专升本
自考
实用职业技能
登录
考研
United States Senator John Glenn returned to orbit aboard the space shuttle Discovery in late October, 1998, 36 years after his
United States Senator John Glenn returned to orbit aboard the space shuttle Discovery in late October, 1998, 36 years after his
admin
2009-04-26
84
问题
United States Senator John Glenn returned to orbit aboard the space shuttle Discovery in late October, 1998, 36 years after his first lift-off from Cape Canaveral in Florida. (46)
The 77-year-old politician, who in 1962 became America’s first man to orbit the Earth, blasted off with six other astronauts on a mission that would include research into ageing.
Taking leave of him at the space center along with 3,000 media representatives, 20,000 invited guests and an estimated half million people who crowded vantage points round about to watch the launch—were his wife of more than 50 years, Annie, his two children and two grandchildren.
Glenn fever struck Florida’s space coast months ahead of the launch, with hotel rooms booked up half a year in advance. One local newspaper called the phenomenon "Hurricane Glenn", an ironic reference to the spate of devastating hurricane that had already hit the Florida coast during 1998.
The Ohio senator had campaigned for several years to be allowed this return trip into space. (47)
NASA administers finally agreed to his proposed study on the effects of weightlessness on elderly people and the possible parallels between the side-effects of weightlessness and the ageing process itself.
(48)
Critics, however, complained that the mission was little more than a public relations exercise aimed at raising the profile of NASA, and would do nothing to advance research into the geriatric condition.
Some were even saying that the trip represented the ultimate congressional junket.
Glenn insisted from the beginning that the space mission was a serious one, however. He subjected himself—and others—to a series of tests in a special laboratory while in orbit. (49)
He swallowed a special thermometer before lift-off so that his temperature could be monitored, and had a tube implanted in his arm to facilitate the taking of blood samples without the need for fresh needles each time.
Other tests conducted on his return to Earth were designed to measure his bone density and changes in his spinal cord.
(50)
NASA officials fuelled suspicion that Glenn’s trip had dubious practical value, however, by announcing that there were no plans to test any more elderly astronauts after his trip.
This was despite the fact that 67-year-old Jerrie Cobb, one of 13 women who trained for the Space programme with Glenn in the early 1960s but who were never allowed to fly, expressed her determination to become the next geriatric guineapig in orbit.
The space experience has changed a great deal in the 36 years since Glenn was last in orbit. Unlike his five-hour 1962 trip, this was no solo mission.
选项
答案
国家航空航天局官员终于批准了他提出的关于失重对老年人的影响以及失重副作用与老化过程之间可能存在的联系的研究计划。
解析
转载请注明原文地址:https://kaotiyun.com/show/1Zi4777K
0
考研英语一
相关试题推荐
Whichofthefollowingcanbethebesttitleofthispassage?Themainfunctionoftheliveristo______.
Theauthorthinksthatpullfactors______.Itisimpliedinthelastparagraphthat______.
Bysayingthatacountry’sagriculturalsurplusesoften"complicate"itseconomy,theauthormeans______.Whydogovernmentss
Excitement,fatigue,andanxietycanallbedetectedfromsomeone’sblinks,accordingtopsychologistJohnStern(21)Washington
Excitement,fatigue,andanxietycanallbedetectedfromsomeone’sblinks,accordingtopsychologistJohnStern(21)Washington
Accordingtothepassage,thefactthatyoungpeopleseemtobelosinginterestinscience______.Thebesttitleforthepassa
Accordingtothepassage,thefactthatyoungpeopleseemtobelosinginterestinscience______.Whichofthefollowingstate
Thequestionofethicsinthelegalprofessionisonethathasplaguedtheindustrysinceitsinception.Thecommonimageofan
Whilethere’sneveragoodagetogetcancer,peopleintheir20sand30scanfeelparticularlyisolated.Theaverageageofac
On26March,theItalianSenateapprovedabillthatwouldgivephysiciansinthecountrytherighttooverridethelivingwills
随机试题
组织成员表达情感和情绪的主要途径是()
A.由纤维组织及内皮细胞修复B.由周围的腺上皮细胞修复C.由肉芽组织及周围腺上皮细胞修复D.由周围的鳞状上皮细胞修复E.由骨母细胞及间叶细胞修复皮肤糜烂的愈合
患者,男,68岁。48小时前急性心梗发作入院。现其病情稳定,家属强烈要求探视,但未到探视时间。此时护士首先应该
依照《执业医师法》,国家对医师活动实行监督管理的重要制度是
《药品招标代理机构资格认定及监督管理办法》规定,其资格认定方式是由省、自治区、直辖市药品监督管理部门受理并报国家药品监督管理局和()备案。
怎样理解学生是发展的人?()
知悉真情权,也称知情权,是指消费者享有的知悉其购买、使用的商品或者接受的服务的真实情况的权利。下列选项中,超出了消费者知情权权限的是()。
RobertJ.OppenheimerwasafamousAmericanphysicist,whodirectedthedevelopmentofthefirstatomicbombs.Oppenheimerw
阅读下列材料,然后回答问题。研究一:有人探讨了不同亲缘关系成员在不同养育环境下智力测验分数之间的相关程度,结果如下表。研究二:研究者测查了5岁的非裔美国儿童和白人儿童的智商,对每个儿童家庭的社会地位以及相关因素进行了考察,并对这些社会
EndangeredPeoplesA)Today,itisnotdistance,butculturethatseparatesthepeoplesoftheworld.Thecentralquestionofour
最新回复
(
0
)