JUNE 2015
First American Spacewalk
Imagine you're an astronaut. Imagine you're on a spacewalk. Imagine, in other
words, that you are whirling above the Earth at more than 17,000 miles an hour,
the only thing between you and the deadly vacuum of space a padded suit, a
hardened helmet, and an umbilical tether that you hope is really, really strong.
On June 3, 1965, Ed White stepped out above Hawaii and, for 23 minutes,
became the first American human spaceship. He would have been up there
longer if it hadn't been for the spoilsports down at mission control.
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July 13th the Glendale is Going to the Toledo Zoo! and We Need You to Help Push Wheelchairs! RSVP to Jodi at 419-­‐389-­‐0800 Please bring a giB or prize to share with the Prize Table! June brings the official start to summer and Seniors should always wear sunscreen, a hat and light clothing that covers their skin from the sun. Seniors should wear sunglasses that wrap around their eyes and block a high percentage of UV rays. As he surfed behind Gemini 4 as it orbited the Earth at 17,500 miles per hour,
the only thing keeping White from flying off into the void was a 25-foot tether. As
he tossed about a hundred and twenty miles above oceans and countries, using
a small propulsion device to occasionally steer, his colleague James McDivitt
looked on from inside the capsule. White had already beaten the time set two
and a half months earlier by the first man to walk in space, Russian cosmonaut
Alexei Leonov.
"In many ways, it was an American propaganda stunt—there was no question
about it," said Gene Kranz, the NASA flight director who had scrambled on the
President's orders to help accelerate the timeline for America's first spacewalk.
But White, who had already finished his checklist, experimenting with how to
move in space, wasn't thinking about that stuff. He was thinking about that view.
McDivitt: They want you to get back in now.
White (laughing): I’m not coming in… This is fun.
McDivitt: Come on. Let’s get back in here before it gets dark.
White took one last look around. In one glance, he took in the state of Florida,
Cuba, a string of islands. "The view was spectacular," he said later.
The spacewalk, which White captured using a camera set up on the spacecraft,
had a goal too, he would explain: to answer the question, "could man control
himself in space?" The answer looked good—using an air-pressure "space
gun," and a 25-foot tether, a human would be able to direct him or herself in
space.
Since then, more than 200 astronauts and cosmonauts have logged more than
1,000 hours walking and working outside spacecraft.
During the early years of the American and Soviet race into space, their compe@@on was measured by headline-­‐making "firsts": the first satellite, first robo@c spacecraB to the Moon, first man in space, first woman in space, and first spacewalk. To the dismay of the United States, the Soviet Union achieved each of these feats first. These events triggered a drive to catch up with—and surpass—the Soviets, especially in the high-­‐profile endeavor of human space explora@on. The Mercury and Gemini programs were the early U.S. efforts in human spaceflight and they were spectacular successes: May 1961: American astronaut Alan Shepard went briefly into space, but not into orbit, on the Mercury 3 mission February 1962: Astronaut John Glenn spent five hours in orbit on the Mercury 6 mission June 1965: Astronaut Edward White made the first U.S. spacewalk on the Gemini IV mission Although the United States seemed to lag behind the U.S.S.R. in space, it pursued a methodical step-­‐by-­‐step program, in which each mission built upon and extended the previous ones. The Mercury and Gemini missions carefully prepared the way for the Apollo lunar missions. ABer these first few missions that put Americans in space, America's astronauts became the most visible symbols of space explora@on. The public, newspapers, and television celebrated these young space pilots as na@onal heroes, and their flights were widely heralded around the world. Married and the father of two children,
Lt. Col. Edward White was killed, along
with fellow astronauts Gus Grissom and
Roger Chaffee, when a fire broke out in
their command module on Jan. 27, 1967,
during a test countdown for their
planned Apollo 1 mission. All three
men were posthumously awarded
the Congressional Space Medal of
Honor — the highest award NASA bestows
on its heroes.
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How Do Astronauts Train for Spacewalks? One way astronauts train for spacewalks is by going for a swim. Floa@ng in space is a lot like floa@ng in water. Astronauts prac@ce spacewalks underwater in a large swimming pool. The pool is called the Neutral Buoyancy Laboratory, or NBL. It is near NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas. The pool holds 6.2 million gallons of water. Astronauts train seven hours in the pool for every one hour they will spend on a spacewalk. ASTEROID ASTRONAUT CELESTIAL COMET COSMONAUT DOCKING EARTH GALAXY GRAVITY HYDROGEN HELIUM INERTIA MAGNITUDE METEOR NASA ORBIT PLANET SATELLITE SKY SPACE STAR SUN TELEMETRY UNIVERSE VACUUM WEIGHTLESSNESS HAPPY
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6/04 6/15 6/16 6/18 6/24 6/27 Thank you to Ridgewood Manor and Swan Pointe for our Birthday Cake! MONTHLY OUTINGS
*Please note that some ou@ngs are limited to 6 par@cipants. Remember to Sign Up for your outings by the Calendar on E Hall!
All outings are subject to change. Some trips are weather dependent!
6/2 Side Cut Explorer*
Travel along the banks of the
Maumee River and down the canal
towpath. A naturalist highlights the
scenery, as passengers relax
in Metroparks wheelchair
accessible, open-air trolley.
Followed by a picnic lunch. $3
6/5 Tea in the Manor House*
Saluting seventy years since the
1945 end of WWII and the greatest
generation that won the war (colors
are red, white and blue). Seatings
include tea, two sandwiches, two
desserts and musical entertainment
in the beautiful setting of Stranleigh
Manor. $10
6/9 Toledo Museum of Art
The contemporary art show Play
Time poses a serious question about
a seemingly unserious topic: Is play—
the spontaneous, unstructured time
found to foster creativity and problemsolving skills—strictly for kids?
6/10 Ladies Lunch Out
Enjoy a trip to a local restaurant with
the Glendale Gals! $15
6/23 Armstrong Air and
Space Museum Day Trip*
The museum shares the story of
Neil Armstrong, all Ohioans who
have attempted to defy gravity,
the Space Race, and current
space exploration. $7
6/24 Men’s Lunch Out
Enjoy a trip to a local restaurant
with the Glendale Guys! $15
6/26 Noon Tunes Picnic
Bring a lunch and a blanket or a
folding chair and make your
destination the Gazebo on the front
lawn of the Manor House. Take an
hour to relax while listening to the
first concert of the 2015 summer
series, "Noon Tunes".
TBA – Challenger Learning
Center Tour
Challenger Learning Center is not
just a field trip. It’s a unique handson learning experience, transforming
you into a scientist, engineer, or
researcher on a simulated space
mission, complete with mission
control and a spacecraft!
The American Spacesuit
To walk in space, American astronauts today wear a bulky
white spacesuit called the Extravehicular Mobility Unit
(EMU). Russia's cosmonauts use a different spacesuit,
called Orlan, while China's spacewalkers use yet a third
type named Feitian. A spacewalk, in NASA parlance,
is known as an extravehicular activity (EVA).
White's messy, soft armor was a technological tour de force,
blending the human body with the spaceship. In 1965,
NASA awarded its spacesuit contract to Playtex, the underwear maker. A Playtex spinoff has been making NASA's suits
ever since.
Today’s NASA spacesuit's exterior is covered in 17 layers of insulation and tough
fabric to protect against punctures and the severe temperatures swings in space,
which range from 250 degrees Fahrenheit in sunlight to minus 250 F at night.
"It's like being bundled up for winter in several layers," said NASAs engineer.
The spacesuit's core is its hard upper torso the attachment point for softer
sections that form the arms and legs, as well as the life support backpack.
Completing the orbital ensemble are gloves and a glass helmet, complete with
video cameras, lights and a visor to block the sun's glare.
There is even a 30-minute backup oxygen supply and an emergency jetpack
powered by cold nitrogen gas in case an astronaut drifts loose from the station or
space shuttle. But none of those backups have ever been called upon in an
actual U.S. spacewalk, a fact attributed to prepared astronauts and their
experienced instructors and support engineers.
With NASA's space shuttle program retiring and the ability
to ship bulky gear up to the space station going out with it,
the agency will be left without a way to return its current
spacesuits to Earth for safekeeping. Some may be
discarded to burn up in Earth's atmosphere, while the rest
may be kept in reserve to serve as spares or for parts.
Unfortunately, the EMU may be the only spacesuit to date in U.S. history
that will not have a flown representative in museums.
NASA's future missions may send astronauts to visit an asteroid, Mars or the
moon, which will require new spacesuits designed for surface work.
SUNDAY
MONDAY
9:30*St.*Pat's*Church
1
10:15*Resident*Forum
10:45*Stretch*&*News
7
10:15*Calvary*
Church
10:15*Calvary*
Church
11:30*Dominos
2:00*Sorry!
4:00$Space$Trivia
9:30*St.*Pat's*Church
8
11:15*Triominos
2:00*Farkle
4:00$Trivial$Pursuit
9:30*St.*Pat's*Church
9:00*FLEXercise!
10:30*Side*Cut
Explorer
2:00*Tripoly
7:00*Mark*Piasecki
15
11:15*LINKO
2:00*Sequence*Dice
9:00*FLEXercise!
10:00*Shop*Meijers
2:00*Monopoly
4:00$Are$you$Smarter
than$a$5th$Grader?
10:15*Calvary*
Church
1:30*Wii*Bowling
9:30*St.*Pat's*Church
2:00 Movie Matinee
Blue$Planet
9:00*FLEXercise!
10:00*Shop*Meijers
3
3:30
Darts!
9:00*FLEXercise!
10
10:00$MH$Crafters
11:30*Ladies*Lunch
16
9:00*FLEXercise!
17
Independent Activities
29
9:00*FLEXercise!
10:00$Ladder$Bolo
2:00*Flip*It
9:00*FLEXercise!
10:00$Pictionary
11:30*Men's*Lunch
2:30*Library*Visit
4:00$Garden$Walk
30
2:00$Phase$Ten
Dice$and$Cards
7:00*Criss*Sayre
9:00*FLEXercise!
9:45*Nail*Salon
11
1:30$Challenger$Ctr$HandsH
On$Tour
7:00 Vineyard Church
9:00*FLEXercise!
9:45*Nail*Salon
18
10:00 Scrabble with Delia
1:30*Wii*Bowling
23
9:00*FLEXercise!
9:45*Nail*Salon
4
10:00 Scrabble with Delia
2:00
4:00$Garden$Walk
THURSDAY
10:00 Scrabble with Delia
2:00 Shop Dollar Store
in*the*Activity*Rm.
10:15*Calvary*
21
22
Church
9:30*St.*Pat's*Church
9:00*FLEXercise!
10:45*Stretch*&*News
10:00$Air$and$Space
Happy$Father's$Day 11:15$Yahtzee
Museum$
3:00$Left$Right$Center
Day$Trip
2:00 Root Beer
4:00$5$Second$Trivia
4:00$Euchre
Floats
28
9
9:00*FLEXercise!
10:00*BOCCE*BALL
4:00$Euchre
WEDNESDAY
2:00$LINGO
Words
2:00*Toledo*Museum
Play$Time$Exhibit
10:45*Stretch*&*News
Flag$Day
2
4:00$Euchre
10:45*Stretch*&*News
14
TUESDAY
The*Glendale*]*Activity*/*Social*Calendar
24
4:00$Bean$Bag$Toss
7:00*Criss*Sayre
9:00*FLEXercise!
9:45*Nail*Salon
10:00 Scrabble with Delia
2:00*Newsletters
4:00$Memory
7:00 Vineyard Church
4:00$Euchre
Bulletin*Board
All*Schedules*are*Subject*to*Change.
25
FRIDAY
5
9:45*Stretch*&*News
10:00$MH$Crafters
11:00$Tea$in$the$
Manor$House
2:00
4:00$Rummy
Independent Activities
SATURDAY
6
2:00
Jim$Newman
12
13
2:00
Ragtime$Rick
2:00 Movie Matinee
SPACE$COWBOYS
Clint Eastwood & Tommy Lee Jones
11:30*Alan*Seibert
2:00 Long & Short Words
4:00$UNO
7:30$FAMILY$NIGHT
9:45*Stretch*&*News
10:00
11:15*Noon*Tunes
Picnic*Lunch
2:00*Marlene*Harner
&$Birthday$Cake
19
2:00 Movie Matinee
20
APOLLO$13
26
Tom$Hanks
Bill$Paxton
2:00
27
Mitch$Kahl
Always$Available$D$
Independent Activities
Puzzles, Garden Walk
Rummy, Board Games
Billiards, Movies
Crafts, Books
Activity Corner