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...scheduled for next April, when NASA hopes the arm will pluck a malfunctioning 5,100-lb. satellite from space and bring it aboard the shuttle for repairs. Throughout the flight, Bluford and other crew members served as subjects for research conducted aloft by Astronaut and Physician William Thornton, into the causes of motion sickness. Fully 40% of shuttle astronauts have complained of nausea while weightless in space. To aid understanding of the malady, crew members affixed electrodes to their skin to record eye movements as they floated about the weightless cabin...
...aloft with Soviet cosmonauts in 1980. Other members of the crew: Navy Captain Richard Truly, the flight commander, flying his second shuttle mission; Navy Commander Daniel C. Brandenstein, the Challenger's pilot; Navy Lieut. Commander Dale Gardner, who will help deploy the Indian satellite; and Physician William E. Thornton, who will study physiological changes in space...
...Alan Thornton Albany...
Wilson gives glimpses of his own bed. Although rotund and stodgy, he never lacked for lovers. He had a reputation as a philanderer. In 1946 he married his fourth and last wife, the aristocratic European beauty Elena Mumm Thornton. Somber, itemized accounts of their love-making suggest that Wilson paid inordinate attention to her feet. "Folded together [her toes] looked so fine and white," he noted. "Sensual pleasures of holding the insteps and kissing the toes at their base...
...vice president before joining the Playboy Cable Network. "He's very good at that. He should be doing it at NBC. Instead he delegates it to a swami like Brandon Tartikoff [president of NBC Entertainment]." So why was Tinker hired? Says Klein: "His boss at RCA, Thornton Bradshaw, said Tinker has 'bearing.' I think the stockholders might be happier if he was a hunchback with a bad mole, and put them in No. 1. But even if NBC gets there, it won't mean as much as it used to. Now it's just...