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...Teacher in Space program was a creature of NASA's arguably naive, 1980s belief that, with a fleet of sturdy shuttles, space flight could become a wonderfully routine thing. Former Utah Senator Jake Garn snagged himself a seat on one flight - never mind that he spent much of the mission so violently space sick that NASA wags informally added a whole new category, labeled "Garn," to the sliding scale used for diagnosing nausea in orbit. Then Congressman (now Senator) Bill Nelson of Florida spent six days in space aboard the shuttle Columbia in January of 1986, the same month Challenger...
...counties and is loathed by many for its supposed sloppiness. I'd have to turn my "ow" into more of an "aow," my clipped "beck" into an open "baaack." That means I'd be taking the opposite journey to My Fair Lady's Eliza Doolittle ("It's 'aoow' and 'garn' that keep her in her place," sings Professor Higgins, lamenting Eliza's way with words like "oh" and "go on"). So I have a choice. I could work on my "ohs," "oos" and "ows," and try to be a bit more slack about consonants. Or I could holiday in Essex...
...postmarked Jan. 15 at the latest to be considered in the competition that will place a writer, editor, broadcaster, photojournalist or even cartoonist on a space-shuttle mission perhaps as early as this fall. The chosen one will join a select group of spacegoing civilians, including Republican Senator Jake Garn of Utah, who flew on Discovery last April; Democratic Congressman Bill Nelson of Florida, who went along on last week's much delayed mission of Columbia; and Social Studies Teacher Sharon Christa McAuliffe, picked from 11,400 educators in a similar competition last year, who will lift...
COVER: Photomontage by Arthur Hochstein MURDOCH: ALAN LEVENSON--CORBIS OUTLINE; BONO: SAM JONES--CORBIS OUTLINE; AGATSTON: BRIAN SMITH; NEELEMAN: ANDREW GARN; SUU KYI: EDDIE ADAMS--CORBIS OUTLINE; KIDMAN: JAMES WHITE--CORBIS OUTLINE; BECKHAM: DAMIEN MAGUIRE--ALLACTION/RETNA; IYENGAR: PABLO BARTHOLOMEW; JONES: CLAY PATRICK MCBRIDE--RETNA; OUTKAST: MATTHIAS CLAMER; VAJPAYEE: KAMAL KISHORE--REUTERS; ARMSTRONG: JONAS KARLSSON; KERRY: DAVID BURNETT--CONTACT PRESS; GALLIANO: ERIC RYAN--GETTY IMAGES; GIBSON: SAM JONES--CORBIS OUTLINE; KAUFMAN: SEAN GALLUP--GETTY IMAGES; MANDELA: PETER TURNLEY--CORBIS; BUSH: BROOKS KRAFT; ANNAN: WILLIAM COUPON--CORBIS OUTLINE; NAKATA: PHILIPP HOHNDORF--STARFACE/RETNA; SISTANI: HO; ABIZAID: AFP--GETTY IMAGES; ADRIA: RAPHO; OPRAH: FRAZER...
When word got out the following morning, the reaction was largely positive, particularly in Congress. Glenn will not be the first lawmaker to fly in space. Senator Jake Garn of Utah and Representative Bill Nelson of Florida both took shuttle rides in the giddy, all-aboard days before the Challenger disaster. In the eyes of many, however, Garn and Nelson were mere junketeers, politicians who wangled a trip into orbit largely for the sake of going up--or, in the case of the famously space-sick Garn, throwing up. Glenn is no mere joyrider. "John has worked hard to prepare...