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...Astronaut Geologist Dr. Harrison Schmitt seems to have learned something about memory as well as about the moon when he took his lunar stroll last year: "My moon walk was so brief that few impressions were implanted in my mind. Every now and again I start to tell somebody about something I saw on the moon, and I realize I'm telling about something I saw in a picture...
...Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Ala., and in Houston and Cape Kennedy, scientists and engineers held round-the-clock meetings and nation-spanning conference calls to discuss possible repair techniques. One proposal was to have an astronaut poke a giant umbrella-like device out of a hatch and open it above the bald spot...
...tricky orbital repairs will not be without danger. But NASA technicians and engineers have worked overtime to prepare all the special tools, gears and awnings that will be needed. The Skylab astronauts have flown to Huntsville, where they have run repeated trials of the repair procedures in the simulated zero-G conditions of NASA'S water test tank. Indeed, the intense feeling among NASA'S rank and file reminded Astronaut John Swigert Jr. of the remarkable effort that enabled him and his Apollo 13 crew mates to bring their crippled spacecraft safely back to earth after an explosion...
Speaking at the Law School Forum, the ex-astronaut said that his experience in space and his more recent research have confirmed, but not explained the existence of human knowledge outside the understanding of objective scientific research...
Citing evidence that black males die two years earlier than they did ten years ago, Pierce said, "it is more stressful to live in the ghetto than to live in a spaceship." The astronaut, unlike the ghetto dweller, can dream of the time when he will get out of his confinement, Pierce explained...