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in january of 1971

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i boarded a spacecraft and traveled to

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this airless world of brilliant clarity

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the soil there is burn and gray and the

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horizon is always further than it

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appears

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it is a static world that has only known

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silence

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upon its landscape human perspective is

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altered

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millions of human beings were watching

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two men walk on the surface of another

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world

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yet this wasn't the achievement of an

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individual

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this was rather the achievement of air

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species our civilization

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these were momentous days but what i did

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not know

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was that i had yet to grasp what would

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prove most extraordinary what i saw out

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the window was all i had ever known

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all i'd ever loved and hated longed for

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all that i once thought had ever been

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and never would be

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it was all there suspended in the cosmos

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on that fragile little sphere

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i experienced a grand epiphany

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accompanied by exhilaration

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it occurred to me that the molecules in

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my body the molecules of the spacecraft

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itself

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were manufactured long ago in the

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furnace of the ancient stars

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that burned in heaven i perceived the

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universe as in some way

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conscious my life's direction was about

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to change

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i've often likened that experience to

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game of pickup sticks

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within a few days my beliefs about life

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were thrown into the air and scattered

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about

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it has taken me 20 years to pick up