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These same unseen currents keep Lindberg'smemoir aloft, an invisible synthesis of style andease of language. The perceived disorder of thefirst few chapters fades away as the reader iscarried by these currents and Lindbergh'scompelling voice as she navigates her family storywith a quiet, determined tenacity that evokes herfather's meticulousness and her mother'stenderness...
...most accounts, John Kennedy is the key to why Glenn still has the itch to fly in space. When Glenn went aloft on Feb. 20, 1962, the U.S. was taking its first toddling steps on its long march to the moon. Although he was 40, Glenn figured he still had a lot of flying ahead of him. When he returned to Earth, he found otherwise. Like any other astronaut, he periodically approached Bob Gilruth, head of the Mercury program, to inquire about his position in the flight rotation; unlike any other astronaut, he was routinely stonewalled. "Headquarters doesn't want...
...Glenn is going aloft to do more than tuck into the cuisine. Discovery will ferry a number of payloads in its cargo bay, including a Spartan satellite that will be released into space to take readings of the sun, a pallet of sensors to measure the ultraviolet environment of space, and several new components for the Hubble Space Telescope that need to be tested in the extreme conditions of space. Most important, the ship is carrying the Spacehab science module, a pressurized laboratory that is connected to the crew compartment and provides additional space for conducting medical experiments...
...crew members will stay aloft until August, while their human counterparts film their movements for a study on anatomy and motor skills in space. It?s not the first outing for the salamanders, who follow in the footsteps of a nine-newt team that tragically died on re-entry last February. The snails, however, are slithering where no shell-dweller has slithered before...
That one John Glenn may encounter challenges in space that the John Glenn of 1962 did not. Glenn's only trip into space lasted less than five hours in a craft so cramped he never left his seat. This time he will spend 10 days aloft in the comparative gymnasium of the shuttle--a vehicle famous for causing space sickness. Moreover, as both captain and crew of his old Mercury spacecraft, Glenn was accustomed to being in charge. This time he will be passenger and scientific subject in a spacecraft piloted by astronauts young enough to be his sons...