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...left his imprint on history in 1969 when he became the fourth man to set foot on the moon, and now former Astronaut Alan Bean, 52, is painting almost obsessively in an effort to capture the lunar landscape on canvas. In Houston this month Bean will launch his second one-man show with 15 of his $7,500 acrylic moonscapes. "Frederic Remington and Charles Russell painted the West as it was before it went away forever," he says. "That's kind of what I'm doing. The beginning of the space program will never come again." Bean...
...13th U.S. shuttle mission. Challenger soared off its pad at Kennedy Space Center carrying a record seven passengers. Among its crew are two women: Kathryn Sullivan, who is scheduled this week to become the first American woman to walk in space, and Sally Ride, the first U.S. female astronaut. Also aboard is Marc Garneau, the first Canadian astronaut, an engineer who will study the damage done to Canadian lakes by acid rain. Within hours after the launch, Ride commanded the shuttle's robot arm to release a $40 million heat-sensing satellite that will aid long-range weather forecasting...
Defense Department officials say that reports of a military astronaut cadre are "grossly exaggerated." Otherwise, they say, the new volume "simply codifies the obvious." Indeed, most of its information can be found in public documents. Jane's detailed, fact-crammed 300-page book (price: $29.95) does, however, present a compelling look into space technology being developed by both the U.S. and the Soviet Union. "Given what we're doing," admitted one high-ranking Air Force officer, "it's the height of hypocrisy to cry wolf about the Russians...
What do doctor, drummer, photographer and astronaut have in common? None of them would leave home without his portable computer. Propped on knees and laps and fold-down trays, these marvels of miniaturization are turning up in the most familiar places: planes, buses, restaurants, at the track and on the campaign trail. Portable computers have shrunk in three years from the size of sewing machines to no bigger than a TV dinner, and in some circles they have become as ubiquitous as wristwatch calculators, headphone stereos and beepers. According to Dataquest, a California research firm, Americans this year will...
...with this latest flight, Savitskaya has tallied yet another: the first woman to return to space. Two years ago, the cosmonaut-researcher conducted experiments in astrophysics, medicine and biotechnology aboard Salyut-7. Again an American was upstaged: Sally Ride was planning to become the first two-time female astronaut when she joined Kathy Sullivan on the shuttle this October...