Spacewalker
In December a new star appeared on the horizon when astronaut James Newman 78 and his 'Endeavor Crewmates began assembling the International Space Station. Newman. a physicist and veteran of two previous flights, Was selected to perform 20 hours of spacewalks oil the mission, which launched the largest scientific cooperative program in human history.
"It was a cool flight, probably the highlight of my career," Newman coolly summed up afterward, speaking by telephone from Houston. "The best part was that I didn't screw up. I was glad that I didn't lose anything." No small feat, as he and sidekick Jerry Ross took more than 100 tools "outside" with them when they linked the U.S. and Russian space modules and completed other tasks.
Jim's feel for the danger of a spacewalk is more poignant nowadays, with a wife and two young children 240 miles below. Still, his impatience to blaze new trails is palpable. "In the sixties we didn't leave an infrastructure—after we got to the moon, we couldn't stay there," he said. "I'd like to see us go back to the moon and live there. It's the government's job to build roads, and now we need roads into space."
To help build those roads, Jim plans to spend a year with his family in Star City, outside Moscow, as NASA's director of operations in Russia. Space station assembly will take about five years, and Jim says the trickiest part will be coordinating the talents of 16 participating nations.
•David McLaughlin '54,TU'55, former President of Dartmouth, named non-executive chairman of CBS Corp.
• Jamie Stewart Jr. '66, appointed first vice president of the Federal Reserve Bank o fNew York
• Bob DuPuy '68, named chief legal officer and executive vice president of administration for Major League Baseball
• Val Armento '73, leader of the parade of more than 500 accordionists who, playing "Lady of Spain" at the opening of a soapbox derby in Menlo Park, Calif., marched into the Guinness Book of World Records as the world's largest accordion band.
• Stacy Phillips '80, named one of the "SO Most Powerful Women in Los Angeles Law" by the Los Angeles Business Journal
• Sarah Hood '98, named to the U.S. national hockey team competing in the Women's World Championships in Espoo, Finland
Newman takes a stroll to link the U.S. and Russian space modules.
