By Meredith Brody
You might secretly be dreading tonight's festivities: the dry turkey, lumpy gravy, wacky dressing, and panoply of oddly-assorted sides; the mindless mayhem playing itself out on the TV, whether it's guys crashing into each other on the football field or balloons knocking lampposts onto hapless spectators at Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade; and the inevitable, you-can-almost-set-your-clock-by-it family discord.
But it could be worse. You could be an astronaut, sharing six spec
A veteran of the Apollo program continues a quixotic quest to send a small rocket of his own design 60 miles high and, in the process, save his soul. Maybe ours, too.
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