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...second at bat of his team?s 145th game of the 1998 season. He did it far more quickly than Roger Maris, in far fewer at bats, and indeed this race against history has been a foregone conclusion for weeks. Yet as McGwire watched that 62nd baseball rocket out toward left field and barely ?- just barely, this time -? clear the fence and become part of legend, all the weeks of anticipation melted into joy. And what the highlight films will show us, tonight and tomorrow night and down an endless trail of nights on into history, was this: Mark McGwire...
...bird! It's a three-stage missile! No, it's a satellite. In a highly dubious twist to the ongoing military tension between North Korea and Japan, the Korean Central News Agency now claims that the ballistic rocket fired five days ago was not a test -- but the launching of Pyongyang's very own Sputnik. "Our scientists and technicians have succeeded in launching the first artificial satellite aboard a multi-stage rocket," KCNA said Friday. Not only that, but this little orbital wonder is apparently transmitting "the song of General Marshal Kim Jong Il" across the globe at this very...
There was no chance that Glenn would need any of this equipment during a training session here on solid ground. But on Oct. 29, when he climbs into a mid-deck seat on the shuttle Discovery and prepares to rocket into space for a nine-day mission, he'll face a real, if remote, chance that the craft could spin out before it reaches space and wind up in the drink. If it does, the septuagenarian Senator will need all the survival hardware...
...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. On his Mercury flight, Glenn's only safety measure was an escape rocket designed to ignite and carry the spacecraft out of danger if his Atlas rocket appeared likely to explode...
Whether or not this is true, there is no denying that Glenn's 1998 mission will be rich with echoes from his 1962 mission. Once again there will be the program-pre-empting coverage; once again Annie Glenn and her family will be seen watching anxiously as the rocket that carries the head of the household explodes off the ground and falls back to Earth; once again there should be the triumphal return...