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"I told them how excited I would be to go into space and how thrilled I was when Alan Shepard made his historic flight, and when John Kennedy announced on the news that the men had landed safely on the moon, and how jealous I was of those men."
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"The president felt that it was important to send an ordinary citizen to experience the excitement of space travel as a representative for all Americans."
"We sat around one night and thought that people are going to look back and say, I can't imagine there was a lot of excitement about HER going up!"
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