Word: astronauts
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...harder rain fell Monday. At Rockwell International's plant in Downey, Queen and consort each stepped into the cockpit of a space shuttle simulator and played astronaut, making a video landing. The Queen was on automatic pilot; the Prince, who has piloted R.A.F. jets, grabbed the joystick and "flew" freely...
Sometimes imagination is not enough. During his tour of Latin America late last year, President Reagan generously offered to prepare a Brazilian astronaut for a seat on a U.S. space-shuttle flight. There was one small problem. Brazil has no astronauts. Facts must be faced: most North Americans neither know nor care to know too much about Latin America unless, of course, someone shouts, "The Russians are coming...
...Astronauts Bill Lenoir and Bob Overmyer experienced nausea and vomiting during the fifth flight of the Columbia last November. Lenoir's distress helped force changes in planned space tasks during the five-day mission. Space sickness, renamed by NASA "space adaptation syndrome" (SAS), was recognized only a decade ago. Says former Astronaut Mike Collins: "We didn't have much of a problem with space sickness as long as we were strapped in Mercury and Gemini. Same for the Russians. It's when we all began floating around in Skylab and the Russians in Salyut that the guys...
DIED. John L. Swigert Jr., 51, plucky, earnest Apollo 13 astronaut, who was due to be sworn in this week as a Republican Congressman from Colorado; of lung and bone-marrow cancer; in Washington, D.C. Chosen as a replacement one day before unlucky 13's launching in 1970, the civilian astronaut coolly announced, when an oxygen tank exploded, "Houston, we've got a problem," then initiated emergency procedures he had helped develop. Turning to politics, he spent most of his life savings in an unsuccessful bid for a senatorial nomination in 1978, but came back last year...
...Democratic side, the decision by Senator Edward Kennedy not to run has so far benefited only former Vice President Walter Mondale and Ohio Senator (and onetime Astronaut) John Glenn, both of whom have high name recognition going into the campaign. Among Democrats and independents, Mondale is now preferred by 33% and Glenn by 20%. No one else has more than a 4% following at this early stage...