resting moose in the forest grass

inally an acronym for Man Out Of Space Easiest and later changed to the more professional-sounding Manned Orbital Operations Safety Equipment, was a proposed emergency "bail-out" system capable of bringing a single astronaut safely down from Earth orbit to the planet's surface.The design was proposed by General Electric in the early 1960s. The system was quite compact, weighing 200 pounds (90 kilograms) and fitting inside a suitcase-sized container. It consisted of a small twin-nozzle rocket motor sufficient to deorbit the astronaut, a mylar bag six feet (1.8 metres) long with a flexible quarter-inch-thick ablative heat shield on the back, two pressurized canisters to fill it with polyurethane foam, and a parachute, radio equipment and a survival kit. The astronaut would leave his vehicle in a space suit, climb inside the plastic bag, and then fill it with foam. The bag had the shape of a blunt cone, with the astronaut embedded in its base facing outward. The rocket pack would protrude from the bag and be used to slow the astronaut's orbital momentum enough so that he would reenter Earth's atmosphere, and the foam-filled bag would act as insulation during the subsequent aerobraking. Finally, once the astronaut had descended to 30,000 feet (9 km) where the air was sufficiently dense, the parachute would automatically deploy and slow the astronaut's fall to 17 mph (7.6 metres per second). The foam heat shield would serve a final role as cushioning when the astronaut touches down, and as a flotation device should he land on water. The radio beacon would guide rescuers. See more at Wikipedia.org...

[self as the "voice and friend of the smoker", is a United Kingdom political pressure group that campaigns for the right of people to smoke tobacco and opposes attempts to ban or reduce tobacco consumption, as well as casting doubt on medical claims of the health risks of smoking. According to anti-smoking group Action on Smoking and Health, FOREST is funded almost entirely by the tobacco industry. See more at Wikipedia.org...]

>This article is about plants; for other uses of the term, see Grass (disambiguation) Grass generally describes a monocotyledonous green plant characterized by slender leaves, called blades, which usually grow arching upwards from the ground. Plants that are botanically regarded as "true" grasses fall into the flowering plant family, Poaceae. However, there are other plants outside this plant family that have similar appearance, and are commonly referred to as grasses, or have "grass" as part of their name. These include:China grass, more commonly known as Ramie (Boehmeria nivea), a nettle grown for bast fibres, in the Family UrticaceaeDitch grass or Wigeon grass (Ruppia maritima) in the Family RuppiaceaeFish grass (Cabomba caroliniana), a freshwater aquaticGoosegrass (Galium aparine)Mondo grass or Lily turf (Ophiopogon japonicus), an Asian ornamental ground coverNutgrass, a common lawn pest (Cyperus rotundus) in the Family CyperaceaePepper grasses (Lipidium spp.) in the family BrassicaceaeSawgrass, abundant in sub-tropical marshlands (Cladium spp.) in the Family CyperaceaeScurvy-grass (Cochlearia species) in the Family BrassicaceaeScurvy-grass Sorrel (Oxalis enneaphylla) in the Family OxalidaceaeSeagrasses, including Eel grass (Zostera spp.)"Sleeping grass" (Mimosa pudica) a legume (Family Fabaceae) and lawn weedXyridaceae, known as the yellow-eyed grass family See more at Wikipedia.org...