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Munns, unlike most of his fellows-in-arms, doesn’t temper his future plans with a well-thought-out alternative to the military. “Eventually I want to try and get into the astronaut program, and most astronauts come from the Navy,” he says. “When I started getting serious about thinking about school I realized this is what I want to do. When it came time to pick a major, I picked astrophysics. I like this stuff. It could come in handy...
...ALDRIN, who flew on the Apollo 11 mission. Aldrin arrived at a Beverly Hills, Calif., hotel expecting to be interviewed for Japanese TV. Instead, he encountered Sibrel brandishing a Bible and demanding that Aldrin swear he had walked on the moon. Aldrin, 72, punched Sibrel in the face. The astronaut says he was defending himself, but Sibrel has vowed to press charges. All of this probably won't help Sibrel get an agent...
...writing is terse, stinging and barely leavened by well-observed humor. In tight strokes he sketches a grimly vivid picture of the depressed Jersey of the early 1980s, a Springsteen vision of darkness at the edge of town. The narrator dreams idly of escaping by becoming an astronaut, but he knows the hotel is his prison, and the service bell is his warden: "BING! BING! BING! That little bell going off put your life on hold. You heard it and you hopped...
...sure to check out our other guest essays: a loving tribute to the planet from former astronaut Kathryn Sullivan, who has seen Earth from a rare vantage point; a cautionary tale of lost civilizations from Jared Diamond, Pulitzer prizewinning author and a director of the World Wildlife Fund; and an impassioned call to action from Jane Goodall, the renowned conservationist. (Goodall faxed her essay to us with apologies that she wouldn't be around for a while to answer editors' questions. She was heading soon into a rain forest in the Republic of the Congo...
...best picture the world has ever seen wasn't snapped by a professional photographer but by a man of science, the former U.S. astronaut William Anders. Taken in December 1968 from Apollo 8 - the first manned vehicle in lunar orbit - the image is of the earth rising above the moon's arid, lifeless horizon. Revealing the planet for the first time as a pristine blue and white jewel in the black void of space, the picture became an instant classic, inspiring poets and becoming a symbol of the ecology movement. "It is truly the most beautiful photo ever taken," says...