Giffords husband to decide on space trip in mid-Feb, Reuters
“The astronaut husband of a U.S. congresswoman seriously wounded when she was shot in head will decide by mid-February whether to join the last NASA shuttle launch as scheduled, the space agency said on Sunday.”
Giffords’s Husband Faces Decision on Shuttle Flight
“Mark is still the commander,” said Peggy A. Whitson, the chief astronaut, but she said that having a backup commander would allow the crew to continue training and Captain Kelly to “focus on his wife’s care.”
