http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/co ... 01623.htmlHOUSTON, Aug. 2 -- When he was a kid, Discovery astronaut Steve Robinson pestered his parents until they bought him flying lessons for his 14th birthday. He exhausted the money in a couple of weeks, but his appetite lingered -- worse than ever -- so he built himself a hang glider.
"Foolhardy?" Robinson mused, when asked earlier this year about the dangers of flying aboard a 21-year-old spaceship with 2.5 million parts, the vast majority of them designed during the previous century.
"Foolhardy is when I jumped off a cliff on a hang glider when I was 15," he said. "This isn't even close."
Discovery astronaut built his own hang glider...
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