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4. Looking forward to seeing them fly!

Reply to muriel_volestrangler (Original post)

Wed Sep 24, 2025, 05:43 PM

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May they 'find fair winds and following seas' too when they do set sail for Luna.

Their flight will be our country's (and humanity's) first crewed space flight out of 'low earth orbit' since Apollo 17 wrapped up the successful Apollo program in December 1972.

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