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November 13 - 19, 2017 Page 3 ACROSS 1. Actor on "Zoo" (2) 9. Eisenhower or Schwarzkopf: abbr. 10. City in Utah 11. "Pretty Maids All in a __"; 1971 Rock Hudson film 13. Bottled water brand 15. __ acids; "the building blocks of life" 17. Series for Sterling K. Brown (3) 18. Prefix for large or lighten 20. Peggy Bundy's man 21. Actor Kilmer 23. "The __ Couple" 24. Maya Rudolph's "Up All Night" role 25. Role on "Everybody Loves Raymond" 26. Pitcher Young 29. "__' Better Blues"; 1990 Spike Lee movie 30. Series for George Eads 34. "The Mary Tyler Moore Show" spin- off 36. Make right 38. Trotted 39. "Queen for __ __" (1956-64) 42. "I'd like to buy __ __, Pat" 43. Role on "Kevin Can Wait" (2) DOWN 1. Soprano Sills, to friends 2. Part of a monogram: abbr. 3. __ Anderson 4. MMXVII, for one: abbr. 5. "How to __ a Latin Lover"; 2017 Rob Lowe film 6. Thurman's namesakes 7. __ Kristofferson 8. Geologic period 9. Actress on "Bull" (2) 12. "What __ __ __?"; hidden camera series 14. __ moment; instant of sudden realization 16. 2012 Matthew McConaughey movie 19. "McHale's __" (1962-66) 20. West or Sandler 22. "__ Law" (1986-94) 23. Word in the title of Howie Mandel's game show 27. "__ About You" 28. Ruby or topaz 30. Highly infectious disease, for short 31. Actor Scott 32. ""!__ con Dios!"; heartfelt farewell 33. "The __ Housewives of Beverly Hills" 35. "If I __ Known I Was a Genius"; 2007 film for Whoopi 37. 90 degrees from WNW 40. 1988 Martin Sheen movie 41. Initials for Sir Guinness Solution on page 2 CoverStory By George Dickie © Zap2it In the quest to put a man on Mars, the lessons learned from Scott Kelly's year on the International Space Station are invalu- able — among them what happens to the human body after it returns to full gravity. PBS' "Beyond a Year in Space," the follow-up to last year's Emmy-winning "A Year in Space" that airs Wednesday, Nov. 15 (check local listings), follows the recently-retired American astronaut after his return to Earth on March 1, 2016, thus com- pleting a record-breaking 340-day stay in orbit. It tracks him as he under- goes extensive medical testing and begins to feel the physical toll of an ex- tended period in space. At the same, his twin brother, fellow astronaut Mark Kel- ly, underwent the same testing, which gave scien- tists a unique picture of the differences between what space and Earth environ- ments do to two people of identical genetic makeup. And while Scott Kel- ly's symptoms — which included inflammation, sore muscles, stiff joints, skin sensitivity and flu-like symptoms — were annoy- ing, they weren't debilitat- ing, though he does admit he had been less than enthusiastic about going back into space for about a year after his return. "I think what I said soon after I got back ...," he re- calls, " 'You know I would definitely fly in space again for a year, but I wouldn't do it a second time.' You know, in other words, having not done it before, I would do it again. I think I'm far enough away from it now that if you asked me the same question, 'Would you do it again?' I would say, 'Absolutely!' And I would do it a second time. Yeah. Sign me up. "I think the further we get away from anything in our lives that may be difficult or challenging," he continues, "you know, you kind of forget about the hard stuff and think more about the stuff that was easy and the stuff that was fun and why you did it." The film also introduces two astronauts as they train for a Mars mission — biologist Jessica Meir and former Navy pilot Victor Glover — and follow them at NASA and at home, as they go about their daily lives and talk about what it means to them to be the next generation of astro- naut. Now-retired astronaut Scott Kelly is featured in the new special "Beyond a Year in Space" Wednesday on PBS. PBS' 'Beyond a Year in Space' shows Mars isn't as far away as we thought

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