What's Really Going On With Gabby Giffords?

Three months after the Arizona attack that left Rep. Gabrielle Giffords in a coma, she is walking, talking, and wants to attend her husband's space shuttle launch. But will she ever fully recover? In this week's Newsweek, Peter J. Boyer tells the untold story of the congresswoman's struggle.

(By Peter J. Boyer, The Daily Beast) - The scheduled launch this month of the space shuttle Endeavour has aroused public interest at a level not seen since NASA's glory days—not because of the mission itself, but because of one potential spectator at the Florida liftoff. Since the Jan. 8 shooting spree in Tucson that killed six people and gravely wounded Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, it has been the goal of her family and doctors that she attend the launch of the Endeavour, commanded by her astronaut husband, Mark Kelly. For Gabby (as she is now known by all), it would be a symbolic moment of triumph. For the country and the world, waiting expectantly and hopefully, it would be the first glimpse of the convalescent who has become America's Congresswoman.