Milestones: Aug. 9, 1982

BORN. To Rhea Seddon, 34, one of eight women astronauts and an M.D. trained to conduct experiments in orbit, and Navy Lieut. Commander Robert L. Gibson, 35, also an astronaut and a jet pilot: a son, her first child, his second; in Houston. Within twelve hours of his birth, the first U.S. astrotot logged a helicopter flight after he developed breathing problems and had to be transferred to a second hospital. At week's end his pneumonia-like condition seemed to be under control.

DIED. Tatyana Grosman, 78, enterprising print publisher whose enthusiasm and meticulous dedication...

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