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Nasa
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Cosmic Voyager by Stewart Stafford
I was the new Ulysses,
Petals on a tide of darkness,
Cast to bloom among the stars,
Wilted, off the world's edge.
Lieutenant General Tommy P.,
Name, rank and serial oblivion,
My wife and hurricanes called me,
Memories of love kept me going.
I found myself fading adrift,
Dying far beyond the reach,
Of human hands and hearts,
In withering away, I found all.
They threw flags of all nations,
To reel in a drowning person;
One last breath for man,
One lungful of
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For the better part of seven decades, watching rockets launch from Cape Canaveral has been a major tourist attraction, a favorite activity of locals, and a taken-for-granted part of Florida life. Few experiences in this lifetime are as awe-inspiring as watching a rocket launch not more than five miles from the launch site. When NASA lights the fuse on these babies, the solid rocket boosters blast the payload into space with several million pounds of thrust. Words cannot adequately describe the s
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― A Florida State of Mind: An Unnatural History of Our Weirdest State
― A Florida State of Mind: An Unnatural History of Our Weirdest State
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