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...great heroes who appeared from time to time throughout history," said President Ronald Reagan. "There were many like him in the past-pioneers, soldiers, lawmen, explorers-people who all went out and put their lives on the line for the cause of good." Whom did he mean? An astronaut, perhaps, or a star FBI drug buster. No, Reagan was praising Agent 007 in a filmed appearance on a British TV special, James Bond, The First 21 Years. The President did not seem troubled by the fact that Ian Fleming's superspy also has a reputation for booze (vodka martinis...
...next female astronaut scheduled to fly is Judith Resnik, 34, a Ph.D. in electrical engineering from Akron, who has a seat next March on the twelfth shuttle mission, along with Ride's husband, Astronaut Steven Hawley, 31. But NASA'S new ecumenical-crew policy goes beyond women. A mission specialist on the next Challenger flight will be Air Force Lieut. Colonel Guion Bluford, 40, who will become the first black astronaut in space...
...Challenger headed off on the seventh shuttle mission, a bare 59 milliseconds late, the jubilation was as much for Ride as for the machine. By finally launching what Air Force Lieut. General James Abrahamson, chief of the shuttle program, called with old-fashioned chivalry "the first U.S. lady astronaut in space," NASA gave the shuttle program as much of a popular boost as it could have got from the most powerful new rocket...
...drives alone to the suburbs to pick her up. He does the family shopping occasionally and makes household repairs, even though he is the wealthiest of the Democratic candidates. His assets amount to $6 million, which came mostly from investments he made in Holiday Inns when he was an astronaut...
Like her sister astronauts, Ride has mostly been treated like one of the guys Says she: "Crip won't even open a door for me anymore." Ever since the mission earn selection was announced 14 months ago, Ride and her crewmates have spent most of their waking hours together. The fifth member of the group, Norman Thagard, 39, another mission specialist, was added only last December. As a physician, he will investigate a nagging difficulty of space travel: the initial queasiness, or "space adaptation syndrome," that seems to afflict about 50% of all astronauts in their first few days...