Fly her to the moon: what's art got to do with NASA? Laurie Anderson listens to the cosmic pulse.(National Aeronautics and Space Administration)(Interview)

From: American Theatre | Date: March 1, 2005| Author: Gener, Randy | Copyright information

Laurie Anderson quit smoking to improve her chances for space travel. The way she figures it, an astronaut has greater odds of going up on a space mission--"Just as a passenger or some kind of participant," she muses--if her lungs are free of nicotine and other cancerous substances. Space exploration is dangerous enough, without self-inflicted toxicity. And since officials of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration did have the spunk to name her, three years ago, as its f...

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