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"in a heartbeat"

Tomorrow is the 40th anniversary of the Apollo 11 mission to the moon. I look at the pictures here, and think:

"Even knowing how risky, dangerous, and how much hard work is involved with going into space, even just to the ISS, would I take that risk, all to see the Earth from that angle? To float outside a ship, in a frail suit, a separate body, moving through the universe under rules that have existed for billions of years? To be able to see the universe without the derangement of the atmosphere?



























In a hearbeat. It is still my best, longest-lived, most favorite dream, and I would risk so very much to make it come true."

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