Helping each other, getting bigger and bigger
Because he would have probably been captured sooner and taken as prisoner
They were similar because with olfactory lethargy you have a delay in detecting a new smell because your receptors are overworked from a previously heavy smell, the same thing appear with afterimage, you stare at a color and your cones become lethargy, thus showing an afterimage of another color. they were contrasting because one deals with olfactory bulbs and the other deals with occipital lobes and optic nerves.
NASA HQ are in Houston, Texas. Famous quote "Houston we have a problem" from Apollo 13 relates to it.