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...planes and ships in restricted zones, meteor shower, orbital path of Russian space station, problems with satellite cargoes, astronaut illness...
...astronaut for the past 26 years, Dr. Story Musgrave has learned to handle pressure and danger. He knows what it's like to sit atop a 4.5 million- lb. space shuttle as its three main engines roar to life. He remembers well that when the eight steel bolts that attach the rocket boosters to the launching pad are blown away, there's no turning back. He has felt the crushing sensation as 6 million lbs. of thrust hurl him into orbit. And he knows how sublime and scary it is to float freely in space, tethered to the ship...
NASA has tried to choreograph every move, but these missions never go entirely as planned. "As we know when we do things for the first time in space, things can go wrong," says Swiss crew member Claude Nicollier, an astronaut from the European Space Agency who will be controlling a 50-ft.-long mechanical arm that will extend outward from Endeavour and move spacewalkers around the Hubble. Planners remain concerned about how fatigued the astronauts will become during their long stints working on the satellite. To be on the safe side, NASA added an extra day to the mission...
Rifkin, however, was the exception. Few people seemed to be thinking of the Brave New World visions in which a totalitarian government creates whole subclasses of clones designed expressly for particular tasks. As Annas pointed out, there are better ways to create a crack Navy SEAL team or an astronaut corps than to clone the appropriate mix of sperm and egg and wait 20 years. "Maybe if this were Nazi Germany, we would worry more about the government," said Annas. "But we're in America, where we have the private market. We don't need government to make the nightmare...
...Temple Hills Drive, Lois Aldrin, wife of Gemini and Apollo astronaut Buzz Aldrin, is dressed in a smart lounge outfit and brown sandals. Their house in Emerald Bay was evacuated at 2 p.m. "Emerald Bay has its own fire department, and I thought surely they would stop it," she says. Aldrin has no way to know whether she was right. She had time to grab only one item other than a billfold. "See, this is what I took," she says, opening up a shirt box from Neiman Marcus. Inside there are miniature flags, first-day stamp covers, letters...