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...pilot of the command ship during Apollo ll's 1969 historic flight to the moon, Astronaut Mike Collins had perhaps less reason than his lunar-walking buddies to fret about the clumsy, complex garments that protected them from the harsh vacuum of space. But some of today's astronauts are seriously worried about just how precarious s space suits can be. In a report as bluntly critical as any issued by NASA since its post-mortem on the disastrous 1967 launch-pad fire that killed three astronauts, the space agency has found alarmingly sloppy oversights...
Sala, a first-generation Polish American who is a retired carnival and sports concessionaire, lives alone in Apollo Beach, Fla., in an $11,000, 60-ft. mobile home that he purchased with cash. He moved there five years ago, when a boil turned gangrenous, a complication of the diabetic condition that disabled him. Since then, Sala has drawn some $26,000 in Social Security and Medicare payments. He was legally entitled to every cent. Yet, to repay that amount and cover an estimated $14,000 in future benefits, he has willed $40,000 from his estate to revert...
...after separating from their mother ship, they drifted gently to earth under their large parachutes and stayed afloat for later recovery. As the shuttle cruised 184 miles above the earth, President Reagan sent up his greetings. Commented Columbia's commander, Vance Brand, 51, a veteran of the 1975 Apollo-Soyuz linkup: "It's a beautiful world that we're over." Replied Reagan: "We're trying to figure out how to keep the world as beautiful as it is you looking at it from up there...
...astronauts with a Harvard background. Selected in 1978 as a mission specialist for the shuttle program. Hoffman belongs to a new breed of space scientist--a generation of astronauts quite distinct from the toughened test pilots who grabbed the world's attention during the pioneering Mercury. Gemini and Apollo programs...
...mystique and wonder which used to shroud America's journeys into space has all but dissipated. Grade schoolers surely were not glued to their TV sets yesterday morning to see coverage of the Columbia's lift-off as many of us were in the days of the Apollo missions with their seeming round-the-clock network coverage. And even the media, which rarely resists saturating degrees of reportage, has described the latest mission in unexceptional terms: The New York Times relegated a preview of Thursday's lift-off to page B-16, behind all its international, national and local coverage...