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CONTENTS

INTRODUCTION

01 THEY BLAZED A PATH FOR THE NEXT GENERATION

Akosua Haynes to Margot Lee Shetterly

02 I AM SO VERY ANXIOUS TO ‘COME HOME’

Betty Trier Berry and Mount Wilson Observatory

03 THE VOYAGER COSMIC GREETING CARD

Carl Sagan to Alan Lomax

04 GO, JOHNNY, GO

Ann Druyan and Carl Sagan to Chuck Berry

05 TO A TOP SCIENTIST

Denis Cox and the Woomera Rocket Range

06 VOYAGE FROM THE EARTH TO THE MOON

Frank Borman to Jean Jules-Verne

07 E.T. HAS CHANGED TOMMY’S LIFE

Various to E.T. and Steven Spielberg

08 IF YOU ARE TO BE, BE THE FIRST

Yuri Gagarin to his family

09 SOCIALISM IS THE BEST LAUNCHING PAD FOR SPACE FLIGHTS

Soviet cosmonauts to Leonid Ilyich Brezhnev

10 THE RESULT WOULD BE A CATASTROPHE

Roger Boisjoly to R. K. Lund

11 AND TEARS DON’T FLOW THE SAME IN SPACE

Frank Culbertson to the people of Earth

12 KNOWLEDGE BEGETS KNOWLEDGE

Mary Lou Reitler and John F. Kennedy

13 MAN IN SPACE

Alan Shepard to his parents

14 THE SUN & THE COMET WAS TO HAVE A FIGHT

Nellie Copeland to Dr William R. Kubinec

15 MY SISTER SAYS I AM AN ALIEN

Jack Davis and NASA

16 I CAN BE PATIENT NO LONGER

Jerrie Cobb to John F. Kennedy

17 I AM SO PROUD OF YOU, OUR SOVIET GIRL

Valentina Vladimirovna Zorkina to Valentina Vladimirovna Tereshkova

18 A HIGHLY CIVILIZED AND INTELLIGENT RACE OF BEINGS

Alexander Graham Bell to Mabel Hubbard Bell

19 I’LL BE WATCHING OVER YOU

Jerry Linenger to John Linenger

20 CONFINED TO EARTH, WE HAVE REACHED OUR LIMITS

Isaac Asimov to Adlai Stevenson

21 THE PROVERBIAL ‘REALLY GOOD’ SCIENCE-FICTION MOVIE

Stanley Kubrick to Arthur C. Clarke

22 DEAR SON

Marion Carpenter to Malcolm Scott Carpenter

23 MISS MITCHELL’S COMET

William Mitchell to William C. Bond

24 OTHERS BELIEVE A POET OUGHT TO GO TO THE MOON

Julian Scheer to George M. Low

25 IT’S THE TRIP OF A LIFETIME

Buzz Aldrin to Barry Goldman

26 I MAY BE OF SOME USE TO THE PRESIDENT

Ray Bradbury to Arthur Schlesinger

27 MAKE PLUTO A PLANET AGAIN

Cara Lucy O’Connor and NASA

28 IN EVENT OF MOON DISASTER

William Safire to H. R. Haldeman

29 I AM CLEARLY SUSPECT AND NOT BELIEVABLE

Neil Armstrong to James Whitman

30 HAPPY BIRTHDAY, BUDDY

Neil deGrasse Tyson to NASA

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