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I'm a bit of a space nerd. (So is our Media Director, in case you haven't already noticed.) I grew up watching reruns of the original Star Trek television series. I saw the first Star Wars movie in the theater. Years later, my friends and I ganged up in a dorm room to watch the premiere of Star Trek: The Next Generation. I was always thinking about space. What is out there? What possibilities does it hold? I was home sick from school the day the Challenger exploded in January of 1986. The launches had become so "routine" that they had not been televised, but when something went wrong, CBS broke into The Price is Right and stayed on the rest of the day. Millions of us watched the same footage over and over, hoping for something good, but knowing there was nothing good about the explosion, fire, and spiraling contrails. I still get sick thinking about it. Read more here
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