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Old 10-14-2024, 11:39 PM   #50 (permalink)
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I can still remember waking up one morning and hearing about Sputnik (on my new transistor AM radio) before I went downstairs for breakfast.

Watching the booster coming in hot was, for me, equal to the view of the first Falcon Heavy going up.

Mars before the end of the next Presidential term? It's all up to Gwynne Shotwell. She's the one making it happen.
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