In Peace for All Mankind
Today is July 20, 2011. 42 years ago, Apollo 11 touched down in the Sea of Tranquility. Forty-two freakin’ years. My generation wasn’t even the proverbial glimmer in its father’s eye when the last...
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They are pinpricks in the dark mantle of heaven, tiny oases of light in the desert of the night. We stare at them when the clouds have parted and the artificial lights of the cityscape have gone,...
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“The shuttle blew up.” When my friend Robbie told me that in the afternoon of January 28, 1986, I thought he was kidding. I may have even said “You’re kidding,” in response. For a ten-year-old who’d...
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