Word: glenns
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CYNTHIA HOFFMAN, also a deputy art director, not only helps manage the department but also leads by example with her intelligent and creative designs. A case in point is this week's pull-out poster on John Glenn's space flight. "We wanted to do something informative and inspirational, especially for kids," she says. "I tried to capture Glenn's boyish excitement and implant that in the mind of some future astronaut--like my daughter...
...hate to be the skunk at the picnic--or rather, the great national celebration that attended the return of John Glenn to space. But amid all the high-fiving about how wonderful and glorious it was, we seem to have glossed over the fact that on that beautiful Thursday morning we sent the same man on the same trip he made 36 years ago. It is as if we had a great big back-slapping national jamboree at Kitty Hawk in 1939 to watch the Wright brothers skim the sand in a new biplane...
...wrong. This is no knock on John Glenn. John Glenn is a hero. He deserves to go anywhere he wants to go. He would have earned his wings if he'd done nothing more than fly those 149 combat missions in World War II and Korea, let alone risk his life as the first American to orbit the earth...
This is no knock on NASA either. Sure, it shamelessly hyped the Glenn flight. But NASA, a living rebuke to those conservatives who believe that government can do nothing right, is perfectly entitled to use whatever stunt it can to gin up the nation's constantly flagging interest in the greatest human achievement of this half-century, space flight...
CHANGES This week John Glenn blasts off to find out what space does to a 77-year-old body. Here's what NASA knows about what space does to younger bodies...