The previous year, when Everett Gibson had been unable to offer him a NASA job, he had moved to the University of Georgia’s Savannah River ecology lab in South Carolina. But he’d spent most of the summer of 1996 back in Houston on a fellowship and had helped his comrades in Building 31 with final preparations for the big “coming out.” On August 1, with a full two weeks until the scheduled press conference, he and his wife decided to pack up their dog, cats, and all the stuff they had brought with them for the summer and take a leisurely drive back to South Carolina. When they reached Mobile, Alabama, they joined family members vacationing at a condo on the east side of Mobile Bay, with a postcard view of the rolling surf. Romanek went out to eat with his sister and his mother. They got home about eleven P.M. that Tuesday, August 6, 1996, and turned on the television set. The first thing Romanek saw was a picture of the carbonate globules—his carbonate globules, and then he heard somebody talking about a press conference.
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