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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Bev aka thelmasstuff, post: 250764, member: 23&quot;]Awesome find!!&nbsp; My brother was an engineer and worked on something for the space program.&nbsp; He couldn&#039;t say what at the time and just never said afterwards.&nbsp; Hmmm.</p><p><br /></p><p>I grew up in Derry, NH aka Spacetown USA.&nbsp; Alan Shepard was from Derry.&nbsp; I sat in his seat in Biology - his generation carved their initials into their desks. We had an impromptu parade the day he went up.&nbsp; They took all the kids out of school and gave us little flags and we drove down Main Street with everyone else in town honking horns and cheering and waving our flags out the bus window.&nbsp; A motel at the entrance to town changed it&#039;s name to the Spacetown Motel and had a big rocket statue out front.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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