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For more than 40 years, scientists have sought to learn how well human beings can adapt to long periods in space. The International Space Station continues to provide valuable knowledge about spaceflight. But an earlier space station, Skylab, helped make the current space project possible.

Canadian astronaut Chris Hadfield sang aboard the International Space Station on May 12, 2013. His music video has become extremely popular. The astronaut played his own version of David Bowie's song Space Oddity. He performed while floating weightlessly, with images of planet earth and space appearing in the window behind him.

Chris Hadfield recently returned home after nearly five months on the space station. For him, the long flight produced a hit video on YouTube and no major physical problems. But 40 years ago, scientists did not know how humans would react to long-term spaceflight. To find out, NASA, the American space agency, launched Skylab in May, 1973. Over nearly a year, three teams of astronauts visited Skylab for stays of between 28 to 84 days. They learned how people react to extended periods in space.

Gerald Carr commanded Skylab 4. He spoke at a NASA event marking the 40th anniversary of Skylab's launch. He said that the loss of the body's muscle mass was a main concern. Astronauts on Skylab used exercise equipment to stay strong. The astronauts spent their workdays carrying out experiments, including biomedical research.

Marshall Porterfield is the director of NASA's Space Life and Physical Sciences Division. He says the Skylab astronauts' understanding of their own ability to deal with long-term spaceflight continues to help current astronauts. NASA says the next step for life away from Earth is a year-long space station mission, set for 2015.

1. What space station helped make space projects possible?

Numbered answers:

A: 1. Skylab

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CHAPTER V.

GKATITUDE.

"There were only two of you, then, in the last carriage?" Guy asked with deep interest, the very next morning, as Cyril, none the worse for his long imprisonment, sat quietly in their joint chambers at Staple Inn, recounting the previous day's adventures.

"Yes. Only two of us. It was awfully fortunate. And the carriage that was smashed had nobody at all, except in the first compartment, which escaped being buried. So there were no lives lost, by a miracle, you may say. But several of the people in the front part of the train got terribly shaken."

"And you and the other man were shut up in the tunnel there for fifteen hours at a stretch?" Guy went on reflectively.

"At least fifteen hours," Cyril echoed, without attempting to correct the slight error of sex, for no man, he thought, is bound to criminate himself, even in a flirtation. "It was two in the morning before they dug us quite out. And my companion by that time was more dead than alive, I can tell you, with watching and terror."

"Was he, poor fellow?" Guy murmured, with a sympathetic face; for Cyril had always alluded casually to his fellow-traveller in such general terms that Guy was as yet unaware there was a lady in the case. "And is he all right again now, do you know? Have you heard anything more about him?"

But before Cyril could answer there came a knock at the door, and the next moment Mr. Montague Nevitt, without his violin, entered the room in some haste, all agog with excitement. His face was eager and his manner cordial. It was clear he was full of some important tidings.

1. Where was the joint chambers?
2. Who was there?
3. What had happened the day before?
4. what kind?
5. was there an accident?
6. Between what?
7. Who was in the carriage?
8. who was one?
9. Did the person in the other vehicle get hurt?
10. Was anyone killed?

Numbered answers:

A: 1. Staple Inn
2. Guy and Cyril
3. adventures
4. shut up in the tunnel
5. Yes
6. Carriage and train
7. two of us
8. Cyril
9. yes
10. no

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It was the Fourth of July and Frank the cowboy had a meal planned. He was going to cook for the whole town and do it in a bear costume, which was what they did in his part of the nation to celebrate the holiday and was not weird at all.

Unfortunately Frank had mistaken powdered soap for sugar because the eye holes in his bear costume didn't quite match up with his own eyes. He put the whole box of soap in the strawberry punch that he meant to give to his party guests.

"Try the punch," Frank said. Since they didn't want to be mean, after all Frank went through a lot of trouble in order to respect the town's bear costume wearing ways, the whole town drank the gross drink. No one got sick, but they were all pretty grossed out and after talking to each other planned to help Frank make the meal next year to keep it from happening again.

1. What month was it?
2. Was Frank a cowboy?
3. What did he have planned?
4. Who was he going to cook for?
5. What was he going to wear while he cooked?
6. Whas that wierd in the part of the nation he lived in?
7. What did Frank mistake for sugar?
8. Where did he put the whole box of soap?
9. Who did he mean to give the strawberry punch to?
10. What did frank say to them about the punch?
11. Did Frank go to a lot of trouble to respect the towns bear costume wearing ways?
12. Did the whole town drink the punch?
13. Did anyone get sick?
14. Did it gross them out?
15. Did they plan anything to fix the problem?
16. What did they plan to do?
17. When did they plan to do that?
18. Did they want to keep it from happening again?

Numbered answers:

A:
1. July
2. yes
3. a meal
4. the whole town
5. a bear costume
6. no
7. powdered soap
8. in the strawberry punch
9. party guests
10. Try the punch
11. yes
12. yes
13. No
14. yes
15. yes
16. they planned to help Frank make the meal
17. next year
18. yes