Word: astronautical
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...read music like most children read books, if your family played music together the way others play baseball, if you wanted to grow up to be a musician instead of an astronaut, you could be Johann Sebastian in Bach...or you could be Christoph Wolff, Chairman of the Music Department...
Populist touches were also added in planning the Monday-afternoon parade. Governors unable to serve as grand marshals were urged to designate "citizen representatives" in their places, and more than a dozen did so. Some of the designees were already celebrities, including Astronaut Sally Ride (California), Marathoner Alberto Salazar (Oregon) and Chef Paul Prudhomme (Louisiana). Others were honored for little-noted achievements, including Arkansas Teacher of the Year Alfreeda Marshall. Altogether, final plans for the parade called for 57 floats, 43 marching bands, 37 equestrian units and one dogsled from Alaska pulled by 21 Huskies...
...astronaut describes life in space...
Physicist Joseph P. Allen, one of five crew members aboard the space shuttle Discovery, made his maiden voyage into space two years ago. An astronaut since 1967, he took the fifth flight of the shuttle Columbia. Back on terra firma, Allen collaborated with Writer Russell Martin on a book, Entering Space, published this month (Stewart, Tabori & Chang; $24.95). Illustrated with scores of photographs, a few of which appear here, Entering Space is a knowing and scrupulously detailed account of the most ambitious American adventures aloft. It gives a sense of the prosaic minutiae and the dumb-struck wonder of traveling...
...easiest way for an astronaut to find the earth in the darkness is to search for a disappearance of stars, to look for the curve of blackness seemingly cut out of the heavens. That blackness, that absence even of starlight, is the round and solid earth looming only 200 miles away...