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...astronaut Dick Swigert won the first election in the brand-new Sixth District, but died before taking office. Schaefer was appointed to finish the term and has never looked back. Denver is home to cable giants like TCI, and he has worked to protect their interests. He's also committed to reduced federal spending--in 1994 he proposed freezing cost-of-living adjustments every other year to help cut costs--and is favored to return to Washington...
...sign of the times that amid this explosion of great science, the space story that has got by far the most TV coverage has been Shannon Lucid: plucky, hard-luck astronaut sentenced to six months of sponge baths and Russian food. I salute her spunk, but surely the publicity surrounding her represents a nadir of the shuttle program. Space-endurance records are the equivalent of watching grass grow. The endless hurling of men and women into near space has indeed made us the world's authority on zero-G nausea and other fascinations. But can we move on, please...
...rare grace note in a grueling mission that was to end this week when the shuttle Atlantis returns Lucid to Earth after six long months in space. The 53-year-old shuttle veteran will have amassed 223 days in orbit since 1985, making her America's most experienced astronaut. Besting Russian cosmonaut Elena Kondakova, Lucid will also have set the women's record for consecutive days in orbit (188), after hurricanes and technical glitches delayed shuttle flights that should have picked her up almost seven weeks earlier...
...were a golden pair with outstanding academic and athletic records. They had grown serious since meeting four years ago, and planned to marry right after college. They beat the odds to win coveted places at the military academies, where they planned to study physics. Zamora dreamed of becoming an astronaut, and Graham longed to fly warplanes...
...used to think that all kids had the same silly, dream-like goals. I wanted to be an astronaut, a magician, a dancer, a baseball player, a movie star. I was wrong. The feeling I get from many here is that they have known exactly what they were going to be long before I had learned to talk. Medical journals and Heidegger-perfect reading material for the potty. All kidding aside, having one's life planned out at such early ages, whether by oneself or with the "help" of one's parents, is an unfortunate way to live. To assume...