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RobinA

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5. I Remember

Fri Jan 27, 2017, 08:35 AM

Jan 2017

this horror quite well, and I was 9 at the time. I regarded the space program as a disaster waiting to happen after that. I never liked to watch launches. To a 9 year old, nothing was worth fathers and husbands dying. My attitude towards the program became a bit more nuanced in the years that followed, but it took me awhile to get this out of my mind. It didn't help that I always kind of liked Grissom after he became seasick after splashdown one time.

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