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From: "Diana Gale Matthiesen" <>
Subject: Re: [DNA] Subject: DNA in Space, dust on the moon.
Date: Sun, 27 Mar 2011 01:19:15 -0400
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And I remember the warm, humid night in August of 1983, when we all
left our offices and went up on the roof of the biological sciences
building at UF to watch the first night launch (of Challenger) from
the Kennedy Space Center. Gainesville is 140 miles from the Cape, yet
it was so big and so bright, it was hard to believe it was that far
away. We all stood in utter, awe-struck silence as it arched over,
headed northeast, and trailed out of sight in the dark.

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> From: Kenneth Nordtvedt
> Sent: Saturday, March 26, 2011 12:03 PM
>
> Ah memories! On a crystal clear, cool, early October morning in
> 1957 I
> climbed up to the roof of my university residence house in Back Bay
> Boston
> to watch the Sputnik satellite make its way across the sky.
> It truly seemed like a new era had begun.
> I bet my dna is still up there in nooks and cracks of the building
> roof.


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