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 The Men in the Moon
 Can you believe it? Forty years have passed since man first stepped foot on the moon. It seems like only 32, maybe 33. Do you remember where you were? That's what everyone is asking these days.

But if I were Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin or Michael Collins, the crew of Apollo 11, I think I would be sick of hearing people ask each other that. At some point I would have to interrupt and say, "Let me guess: You were someplace with an atmosphere, am I right? And gravity, too. And with some protection against deadly cosmic gamma rays. Meanwhile, I was hundreds of thousands of miles from earth, eating meals out of a squeeze tube, relieving myself in a bag, and breathing stale space capsule air. It smelled like a college dorm room up there."   Read More...

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