Listening to that little kid inside

Published: Jan. 21, 2017, 1:27 p.m.

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John Chakeres was fascinated with photography and the space program from the time he was a child. After graduating from college with a degree in art, photography and printmaking, he followed his second boyhood dream to the Kennedy Space Center when the first shuttle launched in 1981. John photographed the shuttle program \\u2013 some 50 launches in all \\u2013 until the\\xa0Challenger\\xa0disaster five years later.

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