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Dismayed that America has abandoned its manned space program

As a baby boomer who grew up with the space program from Mercury to Gemini, Apollo to the shuttle, I’m dismayed that America has abandoned our manned space program. For the foreseeable future we will endure the disgrace of paying Russia for taxi service to launch our astronauts, writes Bob Perron.

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