It Came From Outer Space

It was a banner mission for the space shuttle program-—and astronaut James Newman '78—when the Hubble Space Telescope underwent repairs in March. Newman, who made two spacewalks and survived a small scare when a Columbia cooling system malfunctioned, stayed in touch with DAM during the weekldong mission via e-mail and transmitted this floating portrait to our offices from more than 350 miles above the earths surface. The repair job was considered the toughest work ever attempted in space, and when it was completed, Newman hoisted a pennant supplied by professor Ursula Gibson '76, giving new meaning to the phrase " 'round the girdled earth."