Playbill
October, 1982
With space shuttle Columbia scheduled to make its fifth flight next month and people talking of building a permanent space station, it's all too easy to forget that outer space is still, for human beings, an infinitely hazardous territory. We are reminded of that fact in Space, an excerpt from James Michener's soon-to-be-published (by Random House) novel of the same title. It's about a team of astronauts who visit the "dark side" of the moon just when . . . ah, but that would ruin the...