The man who would fall to earth: from approximately this altitude, this man will step from a pressurized capsule and drop twenty-three miles toward earth. In thirty-five seconds, he will become the first human to free-fall through the sound barrier. What happens after that, nobody knows

HE WAS alone when he discovered she was gone. His son and the other children, along with the other husbands and the other wives, were down the hall, in the [...]