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...Astronaut John Glenn used to dread going to NASA's Lewis Research Center in Cleveland, Ohio. As a rookie pilot in the space agency's Mercury program, the 40-year-old Marine would periodically be required to strap himself into the tiny pod of a spacecraft simulator and wait for technicians to set it spinning in three dimensions at speeds exceeding 30 r.p.m. Using nothing more than a joystick, Glenn would have to bring the tumbling cockpit to heel. If he succeeded, he would continue in the program. If he failed, he could be bilged...
...Glenn certainly isn't getting any younger ? he's 15 years the senior of Stori Musgraze, currently the oldest ever cosmonaut. But that's the whole point ? NASA will be able to look at the same astronaut, then and now, to discover whether old age makes any difference in weightlessness...
...comic is set in a banal yet bizarre near-future world, in which voodoo dinosaur zombies can run amuck in a 24-hour convenience store, or the clerical error of some guy in shipping can cause you to wind up wearing the right arm of a lycanthropic astronaut. Schrab calls this aesthetic "surreal"--indeed, one of the book's slogans is "Surreality just got funky!"--but that doesn't seem quite the right way to describe it. The key to understanding the "logic" of Schrab's universe is to realize that it's not the same sort of causality that...
...right that we can read about heroes like Mir commander Vasili Tsibliyev, crew member Alexander Lazutkin and American astronaut Michael Foale in magazines like TIME. How right that, on the brink of a new millennium, space exploration is experiencing a public reawakening, and the average person is encouraged to look up and confront the questions that make being alive a thrilling experience! MARIO DI MAGGIO, Education Officer Durban Natural Science Museum Durban, South Africa...
WORKING ENVIRONMENT: Near outer space. The U-2 can fly above 70,000 feet. Its cruising speed is a relatively slow 430 m.p.h., which can make it vulnerable (seven have been shot down), and its range is more than 4,000 miles. Dress code for pilots: a full-pressure astronaut-like suit when flying. They breathe 100% oxygen and wear UCDs--urinary-collection devices--for obvious reasons...