Word: astronauts
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...crew of the shuttle Discovery was apparently smart enough to come in out of a storm, returning safely to Earth last Saturday before the Leonid meteor shower could begin. The mission's glamour boy, however--veteran astronaut John Glenn--was a bit unsteady, both in orbit and on his return to terra firma...
...taking careful measurements of the effects of gravity on an astronaut's health, including how he or she sleeps, both NASA and gerontologists hope to see if the mechanisms of space-and age-caused sleep disturbances are the same...
...John Glenn was an astronaut in the Mercury space program with...
...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...
...chance of that. Right now, it?s still all Glenn, all the time down in Houston. More than a thousand residents packed an airport hangar to cheer the two-time astronaut?s return Saturday; on Wednesday, the city will throw a parade in his honor. And you?d be hard-pressed to find a reporter with space stations on his mind at the Discovery press conference. How did Senator Glenn feel? "Ninety-five or 98 percent back to normal," he said. Does he have a message for the elder generation? "Don?t sit on a couch someplace, that...