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USC professor t
By USL Informational bervices rcportec
Artist Christopher Robinson's "the sli
quest to go on a space shuttle flight human
began as a visual interest in the flight .
technological hardware at the Ken- is both
nedy Space Center in Florida in Even
1976. Braun,
But when the USC assistant pro- prograr
lessor of art made an offhand need fc
remark to a National Aeronautics into sp<
and Space Administration official The I
about some day joining a shuttle council
crew and the scientist didn't think it first m<
was such a ridiculous idea, Robin- allowed
son began working to make the trip "profei
a reality. artists,
In fact, now he anticipates being could f
chosen as one of the first artists to compn
take that journey, maybe as soon as history
next year.
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"NASA WILL take artists into begin fl
space," Robinson said. "There is shuttle
room right now. The shuttle is and th
equipped to carry seven or eight not pat
people and normally they only fly son is t
four or five." Robi
This past year, the Informational ting,
Task Force for the Study of Issues photog
in Selecting Private Citizens tor coming
Space Shuttle Flights, part of best kr
NASA's Advisery Council, laser in
Hollings to m
From Staff Reports
Sen. Ernest Hollings, the South Carolinian
1984 Democratic nomination tor president, w
day as a guest of the South Carolina State Stud
Hollings will hold a student forum, incluc
and-answer session with the SCSSL delegation
with other students, said Tony Snell, governo
The forum is set for 4:30 p.m. in Russell h
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isional observers," such as
authors and poets who
>rovide NASA with a more
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Christopher Robinsi
USC art professor
, REPORT said NASA could
lying these individuals on the cd contemporary tec
"in the mid- to late- 1980s" artwork. He is prii
at "the flight experience is periential artist, on
ticularly stressful if the per- terested in non-static
rained as to what to expect." by the constraints <
nson who has taught pain- paper or canvas or e
drawing, sculpture, Robinson's consun
raphy and art theory since space flight began in
; to USC in 1975, probably is prepared an enviro
iowii for his xerography and light/sunlight insi
istallations and often has us- "Third Century Ami
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who ran for the has been announced:
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ent Legislature. Dwayne Sutton, president;
Marie Larkin, vice president;
iing a question- Dwayne Edwards, treasurer;
from USC, and Jane Bailey, secretary;
r of the SCSSL. Christie Frazier, historian,
louse room 202. Members of the SCSSL are
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Space Center, the site of the exhibit,
for several weeks and drove
lp 25 miles daily through the center's
grounds to reach the exhibit area.
The hardware he saw at the center
inspired him visually, and he decids
W ed that he would like to go into
HK REALIZED that a layman
selected for a shuttle flight would
have to be thoroughly prepared.
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?n believe that faith alone would get
him onto the shuttle, he immediately
began preparing in earnest to
hnology in his reach his goal.
marily an ex- In the summer of 1977, Robinson
e who is in- received permission to do research
art not limited at the Marshall Space Center near
of a piece of Huntsville, Ala., the management
veil a wall. center for the Apollo space
ning interest in program.
1976 when he There, he half-jokingly talked to
nmental laser the scientists about his growing
filiation for desire in ioin one of the snace shut
:rica," the on- tie flights.
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He said none of them ever laughed
at the idea but most weren't very
encouraging, either. "Finally, I ran
across a guy who said, 'That's a
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ROBINSON MAY have achieved
a breakthrough in his quest in 1978
when he discovered a loophole in
U.S. Navy policies that allowed him
to be trained as a naval aviator
pilot, yet get out of the service after
completing the program.
He was already a pilot so he
jumped at the chance, arranged for
a sabbatical from USC and spent 14
weeks getting the same introductory
academic, physical and flight training
all naval fighter pilots receive.
After successfully completing the
training, he returned to USC with a
stronger background in technology
as well as proof for NASA that he is
preparing for space flight.
Slowly but surely during the past
eight years, Robinson has made
progress in his quest. He gained ac
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launch control area and was present
at flights of the space shuttle Columbia.
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