The far ends meet and then we're just in this airlock of mutual despair.
"Oh, that's good," Mr. Young said he remembered thinking the first time an alien popped up in his virtual ship's airlock and scared him off his seat.
To his surprise, the doors opened with a whoosh, like an airlock on a spaceship.
When you want to exit the gym, there are wristbands and bracelets to take off and turnstiles and airlocks to walk back out through.
The scene showing Bowman entering the emergency airlock from the E.V.A. pod was done in a similar way, with an off-camera stagehand, standing on a platform, holding the wire suspending Dullea above the camera positioned at the bottom of the vertically configured airlock.
About ninety minutes after lift-off, Leonov made his way into the ship's Volga inflatable airlock, secured a 5.35-meter (17.6 foot) tether around his torso, opened the hatch, and ventured out into the unknown with only a spacesuit to protect him.
To give astronauts as much time as possible to work on Hubble during an expected seven-hour spacewalk, the telescope's power is not be to cut off by radio command from Earth until a few minutes before they leave the shuttle's airlock.
The next step for the testing facility, aside from increasing speed incrementally until it can reach the top achievable velocity of 250 mph on the current 1620-foot length of test track, is building and testing an airlock system that will allow passengers and cargo to be loaded onto, and off of the XP-1 pod at stations along a future Hyperloop transit route.
A wooden door would have splintered off its hinges, but this door was a marvel of reinforced steel — some of the marines later likened it to an airlock on a submarine.
Workpieces for assembly enter through an airlock.
