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...Glenn, who is concluding a 24-year political career and easing into senior statesmanship, ought to be beyond such concerns. By choice, he's not. In less than three months--36 years after he blasted into the sky inside the titanium pod of a Mercury spacecraft--he'll return aboard the relatively lavish space shuttle. Even as Congress's August recess begins and the rest of Washington's lawmakers decamp for their favorite vacation spots, Glenn will be in Houston and Florida for his most intensive month of training since being assigned to the mission...
Even a lowly yeoman like Glenn will have his hands full getting ready to fly aboard his new ship. The first time Glenn flew, he was in a mere demitasse of a spacecraft--one with a single window, 56 toggle switches and barely 36 cu. ft. of habitable space. The joke around NASA in that earlier era was that you didn't so much climb inside a Mercury capsule...
When word got out the following morning, the reaction was largely positive, particularly in Congress. Glenn will not be the first lawmaker to fly in space. Senator Jake Garn of Utah and Representative Bill Nelson of Florida both took shuttle rides in the giddy, all-aboard days before the Challenger disaster. In the eyes of many, however, Garn and Nelson were mere junketeers, politicians who wangled a trip into orbit largely for the sake of going up--or, in the case of the famously space-sick Garn, throwing up. Glenn is no mere joyrider. "John has worked hard to prepare...
...year's monsoon season has brought the worst flooding to China's industrial and agricultural heartland since the 1930s. More than 2,000 people have been killed, and as many as 240 million others have been forced to evacuate their homes or found themselves clawing their way to safety aboard makeshift rafts. The flood damage is estimated to run at $24 billion, and 5.5 million homes have been destroyed. More importantly, the floods may have dashed the country's hopes of reaching its economic growth targets -- a deeply troubling scenario in an economy which has to maintain an 8 percent...
Russia's ahead in the space race again. The world's first space-bound bureaucrat -- Yuri Baturin, a former security adviser to Boris Yeltsin -- blasted off from the Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan Thursday, heading for a two-week stay aboard Mir. NASA, of course, has sent lawmakers into orbit; Senator Jake Garn took a junket on the Space Shuttle back before the Challenger disaster, and John Glenn heads off in the fall. But never has America put a presidential aide in space. Can this one fly? "We can teach anyone to become a cosmonaut as long...