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Astronaut crew quarters

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The cheerless, windowless, dormitory where the American astronauts stayed in quarantine for the last few days before their missions. Anomalies included a television that received the Playboy Channel, austere rooms decorated with pictures of exploding volcanoes, and thin walls that conveyed phone conversations from other astronauts in the fearful, sleepless nights before a launch.