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“That’s One Small Step for A Man…” Neil Alden Armstrong (1930-2012)
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Reflections
The mind is a funny thing sometimes. During a recent (long) layover at a major metropolitan airport your humble scribe was gazing out a window, as he is wont to do from time to time, and watched the ground crew prepping yet another jet for its journeys over the horizon. His attention was drawn to…

