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“Words and dollars are not going to beat communism.” - Arizona Republican senator Barry Goldwater after JFK announced the USA foothold in the space race

wow leave us on a cliffhanger like that (I already know what happens irl) but omg the tense in the writing is so good

The precise timing of the EVA was in some respects arbitrary, since there actually was no morning or night in space flight; the astronauts circled the planet ever ninety minutes, experiencing sixteen sunrises and sixteen sunsets per day.

My mom found this at a bookstore in Ocean City, MD (The Buzzed Word). It looked interesting to me, too, so I picked up my own copy. :)