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...shuttle, by contrast, is a veritable flying gymnasium, with 10 windows, more than 850 toggle switches and roughly 332 cu. ft. of space for each of the seven crew members. If astronauts got the 36 cu. ft. the Mercury pilots got, the shuttle could in theory accommodate a crew of 64. And Glenn must learn every inch of this new territory. "We're teaching him how to live and how to sleep and how to clean up, just basic habitability in space," says Brown. "Now we go to space to work. We don't go just to survive...
More nerve-racking than mastering what goes on inside the shuttle, though, is mastering what could go on outside. One of the most hair-raising parts of Glenn's training involves emergency escape procedures. Crew members on shuttles must be prepared to ride slide-wire baskets down from the launch pad if a fully fueled shuttle threatens to blow; shimmy down an escape pole and parachute away from the ship in the event of a postlaunch emergency below an altitude of 20,000 ft.; and rappel down ropes from the hatch if the spacecraft makes an emergency landing on tarmac...
...tube of applesauce he sucked through a straw. The shuttle offers a decidedly better bill of fare, including such delicacies as smoked turkey, Kona coffee and dried apricots. All the meals are sealed in plastic packets, each of which is coded with a colored dot to indicate which crew member it is intended for. The color code for Brown, the commander, is red; for Glenn, a payload specialist, it's purple. "The shrimp cocktail they fix is very, very good," says Glenn, "as good as what you'd get at Delmonico's. Curt likes shrimp, and I always tell...
...pallet of sensors to measure the ultraviolet environment of space, and several new components for the Hubble Space Telescope that need to be tested in the extreme conditions of space. Most important, the ship is carrying the Spacehab science module, a pressurized laboratory that is connected to the crew compartment and provides additional space for conducting medical experiments. It is here Glenn will be doing most of his work, processing blood and urine samples from the rest of the crew and sitting still for the battery of tests that will...
...Spielberg's Saving Private Ryan. Leaving the theater after the movie, Buffett is speechless, an unusual condition for him. "Whoa," he says finally. "Not a big popcorn movie." Soon he is talking seriously about thoughts the film stirred up. "My dad, J.D., was in the Army Air Corps, a crew chief on C-47 transports in China," he says. "He was on a flight over the Himalayas when fire broke out belowdecks. He put it out but got back up to find the pilot and copilot bailing out. He and a master sergeant talked 'em back to the controls." There...