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    "title": "How to Step Away (A Neil Armstrong Obituary)",
    "author": "pmjones",
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    "created": "2012-08-27 02:18:50 UTC",
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    "html": "<blockquote>\n<p>The effort to put a man on the moon was everything the counterculture 60s repudiated: technology, military skill, national pride, American optimism, the sense that the Frontier has to be conquered so we can find a new one, and go there too. Neil Armstrong offered in jest to be the first man to walk on Mars, as well. Buzz Aldrin has been pushing\u00c2\u00a0 a Mars jaunt for years. If the space program had kept up its pace and sent a team to Mars in the 90s, of course they wouldn\u00e2\u0080\u0099t have sent Neil and Buzz, but if they had, you can imagine Neil Armstrong holding the door for his co-pilot. <em>I\u00e2\u0080\u0099ve had mine. You first.</em></p>\n<p>He seemed like that sort of man.</p>\n</blockquote>\n<p>Emphasis in original. Via <em><a href=\"http://www.ricochet.com/main-feed/How-to-Step-Away\">How to Step Away - Ricochet.com</a></em>.</p>\n"
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