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发信人: leonado (我爱飞雪), 信区: Green
标 题: Laurel Clark
发信站: 哈工大紫丁香 (2003年02月02日11:34:10 星期天), 站内信件
A Mother, Surgeon and Astronaut
Who Kept Risk in Perspective
Feb. 1 — Laurel Clark was a mother, a diving medical officer, a flight
surgeon and an astronaut who was well aware of, but undaunted by, the dangers
involved in space travel.
"There's a lot of different things that we do during life that could
potentially harm us and I choose not to stop doing those things," she said.
Clark, 41, was born in Iowa but considered Racine, Wis., to be her hometown.
She told the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel that in high school she was a "boring
straight-A student" without many hobbies, although she was a member of her
school's swim and ski clubs.
Clark's professional career was an adventurous one, even before she became a
NASA astronaut in 1996. She earned a degree in zoology from the University of
Wisconsin-Madison in 1983 and then received her medical degree from the same
school in 1987.
She used her degrees both underwater and in the air as a submarine medical
officer and a flight surgeon. She had joined the Columbia mission to help
with science experiments and had been one of the "guinea pigs" for the crew,
providing blood, urine and saliva for onboard experiments.
Motherhood Was ‘Most Important’
Clark had to wait quite a long time for the Columbia mission. When she was
assigned to the STS-107 mission in 2000, the launch was planned for June
2001. But a series of unrelated delays postponed Clark's flight again and
again.
Clark was married with an 8-year-old son and as she told an interviewer
before her flight, "Motherhood's been incredible, and I tell my son all the
time that my most important job is being his mother."
Clark lost her cousin, Tim Haviland, in the 2001 attacks on the World Trade
Center. Despite this devastating loss, she said her family was not concerned
about terrorism during her space mission and they were very practical when
putting risks into perspective.
"I think my family has a fairly practical and pragmatic view of this whole
thing, and that's that the actual launching into space is much more dangerous
than any of the other security concerns," she said.
Her late cousin's parents said last month that they had received an e-mail
from Clark and reported that she was having a great time, but was also
keeping an eye on home.
As her aunt Betty Haviland reported last month, "She was thrilled, taking
lots of pictures, she could see the area in Wisconsin where they had lived
for several years."
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