The Boston Globe, February 3rd, 2003
When she gave birth eight years ago, Laurel Blair Salton Clark forfeited sky diving. The risk was too high, the thrill gone, now that she called a little boy her own. A few years later, in 1996, Clark said yes to a seat on space shuttle Columbia. The danger was evident, but Clark, a flight surgeon, embraced the mission in the name of science, making the difficult calculation that all would go well and she'd return with unbeatable sci-fi tales to share with her son Iain. "Not many of us get to pursue our dreams like she did," said Robert Salton, her father, a retired carpenter in Albuquerque. "...
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