Air and space

Published 3:28 pm Wednesday, June 17, 2015

If it fits you can fly: Citing complaints from U.S. passengers, an airline association said it was suspending plans to enforce new size limits for carry-on bags. Some suspected the airlines were looking to force more passengers to pay fees for checked bags.

Rebuffed on the size limits for bags, the airline association said it would now consider new size limits for American butts.

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Channel-surfing the vast cultural wasteland: New on TV is ABC’s “Astronaut Wives Club,” a drama that follows the lives of seven women whose husbands are launched into space.

One of the questions the latest period drama to be set in the ’60s will answer: Did astronauts’ wives drink and smoke more than Madison Avenue ad executives?

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Don’t know much about history: On this day in 1983, U.S. astronaut Sally Ride became the first American woman in space as she and four colleagues blasted off aboard the space shuttle Challenger.

Ride’s spouse called the inaugural meeting of the Astronaut Husbands Club to order, but the motion died for lack of a second.

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