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esiegel | August 24, 2014“I’m coming back in… and it’s the saddest moment of my life.” -Ed White, at the conclusion of the first American spacewalk, June 3, 1965
Adventures are funny things: we look forward to them, we enjoy them to the fullest while we're on them, and then we revel in the experience of having had them once they're behind us. But there are some adventures, as Steve Earle would sing you, that are
Somewhere Out There,
that we'll never experience for ourselves. I'm talking, for the most part, about the far reaches of deep space.
Image credit: Hubble Heritage Team (AURA / STScI), C. R. O’Dell (…