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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...problems, Lousma and his sidekick, Air Force Colonel C. Gordon Fullerton, 45, a space rookie, tackled their assignments with gusto, so much in fact that they suffered from fatigue during the first few days. But they bounced back after getting extra sleep and rearranging their work schedule. Their biggest challenge was operating a Canadian-built, remote-controlled arm that reached 50 ft. outside the shuttle. When the TV camera at the far end of the arm malfunctioned, the astronauts skillfully used binoculars to guide the giant limb, even getting it to lift an experimental package out of Columbia...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Space: Bugs, Bees and Balky Radios | 4/5/1982 | See Source »

...Herring Fullerton, Calif...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Oct. 27, 1980 | 10/27/1980 | See Source »

...Beast' is only the beginning of a year that many cadets say they'd like to forget. Army brat Bill Fullerton went to Vanderbilt for a year and a half but found himself drifting and dropped out. He sold Kirby vacuum cleaners for six months before coming to the Point. "There wasn't a day that went by for the first year that I didn't think about leaving...

Author: By Robert O. Boorstin, | Title: Duty, Honor, Country... | 10/6/1980 | See Source »

Breaking rules which tread what one cadet calls "the fine gray line" between the "honor code" and regulations brings harsher punishments. Last year, Fullerton was caught drinking wine in his room and was slapped with 30 hours of "walking" in return. It would have taken months to work it off, he says, but under a little-know academy rule which states that a visiting head of state can grant amnesty for "walking" cadets, a stopover by the Queen of Thailand cut it short...

Author: By Robert O. Boorstin, | Title: Duty, Honor, Country... | 10/6/1980 | See Source »

...mission--to produce the nation's army officers--is much the same as it was when it began. And although a woman cadet in undershirt and trousers remarks that the full-dress parade she has just marched in was "a pain in the ass," few question the traditions. Fullerton puts on the plume that marks the second lieutenant rank he holds in the United States Army and straightens his coat for the parade. "We were all civilians once, too," he says. "It's not as hard as it looks." Another cadet who has less than a year to go says...

Author: By Robert O. Boorstin, | Title: Duty, Honor, Country... | 10/6/1980 | See Source »

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