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What seems clear is that no adventurer, in his own mind, is a daredevil. Even the most extreme risk taker talks like an astronaut of safety gear, of weather carefully calculated, of redundant strengths to cushion failure. What really protects them, however, seems to be their abnormal awareness of how very much alive they are. "You know about accidents," says a rock-climber. "But it's always the guy next to you, never you." How could it be you? But this inspired state does not often last a lifetime...
Aboard next week's shuttle flight: America's first black astronaut...
...just two months after Challenger's historic flight carrying the first American woman into space. That is the shortest turnaround time yet between shuttle flights. This time there will be three more firsts: the nighttime launch, a nighttime landing and the presence in the crew of a black astronaut...
After 3.5 million kilometers of space, a single kilometer on the ground might seem a bit tame. But last week Astronaut Sally Ride, 32, was in New York City to promote next summer's Olympic Torch Relay and the 1-km leg of the journey to be run in her name for the benefit of the Girls Clubs of America. Her schedule permitting, Ride may even show up to take a few jogging steps for womankind. Don't look back, John Glenn, someone may be gaining...
...nothing came easily. In 1969 Bowie had his first English hit single, Space Oddity, a chilling five-minute movie of alienation starring an astronaut. He had already been on the fringes of the music business for five years, changing his name from Jones to Bowie to avoid confusion with a member of the Monkees. He also flirted with imitating everyone from Anthony Newley to Bob Dylan, and spent three years on and off studying with the mime troupe of Lindsay Kemp, who has been described by Rock Historian Nicholas Schaffner as "Scotland's ultra-camp answer to Marcel Marceau." "Lindsay...