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Spaceflight
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If someone asked me to sum up what is great about my country, I would probably tell them about Apollo 11, about the four hundred thousand people who worked to make the impossible come true within eight years, about how it changed me to see the space-scarred Columbia capsule in a museum as a child, about how we came in peace for all mankind.
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― Leaving Orbit: Notes from the Last Days of American Spaceflight
― Leaving Orbit: Notes from the Last Days of American Spaceflight
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Histories of the Kennedy Space Center acknowledge without exaggeration that the obstacle posed by the mosquitoes was so serious that NASA quite literally could not have put a man on the moon by Kennedy's "before the decade is out" deadline without the invention of DDT. In this way, the challenges of spaceflight reveal themselves to be distinctly terrestrial.
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― Leaving Orbit: Notes from the Last Days of American Spaceflight
― Leaving Orbit: Notes from the Last Days of American Spaceflight
