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Rocket Kids: Burning Out Their Fuses Up There Alone

Requiem for a Dream.

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Textual image from the book Letters to John Glenn. It is an edited letter from a girl to John Glenn after he orbited around the Earth in 1962. This text can be found on page 210 of Letters to John Glenn. Rights holder for this text is World Book Encyclopedia Science Service and is being used on this site through Fair Use. 

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In a letter to John Glenn, this girl describes her dreams of joining the ranks of the Rocket Kid. She even describes what space suit she intends to wear. In her dream, the Rocket Kid works closely with NASA's astronauts to explore space.