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...last week's orbital glitches ended so happily. For the first time since 1974, U.S. astronauts were scheduled for a space walk outside their cabin. But the EVA (NASAese for extravehicular activity) had to be postponed when Astronaut Bill Lenoir, 43, one of the space agency's new breed of scientifically trained mission specialists, came down with a bad case of space sickness, a puzzling ailment that afflicts about half of all travelers in zero-g. Lenoir may have contributed to his own queasiness by indulging a passion for spicy-hot jalapeño peppers during the flight...
...made history. Firing its small thrusters, it rolled and turned so that its big cargo bay faced in the direction of flight. Clamshell-shaped sun covers automatically opened, and the cylindrical parcel underneath them was set spinning (at precisely 52 r.p.m.). With the press of a button, Astronaut Bill Lenoir, 43, fired explosive bolts, releasing the spring-loaded clamps holding the parcel. Out it popped, like some extraterrestrial jack-in-the-box. Forty-five minutes later, after Columbia had pulled about 20 miles away and cautiously turned up its tile-covered belly to protect itself from the blast, a rocket...
...pilots--by training As such, they have been trained to take care of everything except actually flying the ship, which is left to shuttle pilots. And for Hoffman and his colleagues, the shuttle flight which touched down yesterday morning marked a special hurdle Astronauts Joseph Allen and William Lenoir--who launched the shuttle's cargo of two commercial satellites were the first two mission specialists ever to fly in space...
Mission specialist Joseph Allen recalled that after he and William Lenoir deployed tow communications satellites last week Brand commented that the only flight objectives left were an EVA, extravehicular activity and a landing. Allen said he responded...
...film's precarious appeal depends on the attractiveness of Rogers and Hunnicutt, who are pleasant to watch even when they are delivering empty speeches, the dependable duty of Paris and the presence of Jack Lenoir, who makes a great chauffeur and rogue...