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...RETIRING. JOHN W. YOUNG, 74, the world's longest-serving astronaut; after 42 years; in Houston. Young joined NASA in 1962 following a stint in the U.S. Navy and piloted the first manned flight of the Gemini program three years later. In 1981, having previously traveled twice to the moon, he commanded Columbia on the first space-shuttle mission. He is the only astronaut to have flown four types of spacecraft...
...generation to imagine they would all get to taste zero-gravity one day. It didn't work out that way. After NASA reached the moon in 1969, its focus shifted to unmanned probes, orbital experiments and a costly low-orbit shuttle system. The imagined future of Everyman as astronaut evaporated. This year, more than four decades after Shepard's flight, only two Americans have made the jump into space from U.S. soil--both launched not by NASA but by Rutan's tiny company, known for build-your-own-airplane kits...
...Mission Leroy Gordon Cooper Jr. was the sixth U.S. astronaut to travel into space, as part of a 1963 Project Mercury launch [MILESTONES, Oct. 18]. After overcoming technical troubles that threatened his Faith 7 spacecraft, Cooper was a national hero when he returned to Earth. TIME covered the mission and described the problems that Cooper overcame...
...lined up a vertical mark with predetermined stars to provide proper heading ... As Faith 7 blasted into the atmosphere, friction set up a curtain of ionization that knocked out communications ... [The astronaut] scored his bull's-eye landing off the ... carrier Kearsarge ... He was safe?he had done what his equipment could...
...Astronaut is the first studio album from Simon LeBon and the other four original members of Duran Duran in 21 years...