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Volume 15 Number 1
May 2012
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Final Discovery
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space shuttle’s end is new beginning
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Morning flight
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memories, hope
Mike Gisondi prepares for the final space shuttle launch, atlantis, in July. The craft will remain on the space coast as a historical attraction.
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senior life Darrell Woehler
Space shuttle Discovery heads to Smithsonian Institute on April 17, 2012. By linda wiggins Brevards’s 6th annual resource magazine Boomer/Senior Guide can be found at Chambers of Commerce, senior centers, select CVS and local libraries.
When Mike Gisondi was a little boy, his blue eyes widened to the famous 1961 speech by thenPresident John F. Kennedy, pledging to put an American on the moon by the decade’s end. It was as if JFK were speaking directly to
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the tyke who would one day become an engineer, toiling at the Space Center since named for the visionary president. “I heard him speak about why we wanted to go to the moon and I was hooked on space!” Gisondi said. The speech was like a starter’s pistol in the final leg of
the Cold War space race against the Soviet Union. It energized Americans living under a shadow cast by the Soviet satellite Sputnik launch in 1957, fearing it could enable our then-nemesis to carry nuclear weapons to our shores.
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