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Published: Aug. 20, 2015, 6:29 a.m.

Episode 9 of the 2015 Summer Season.

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Music

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* Under the credits is Harlaamstrat 74 off of John Dankworth's Modesty Blaise score.

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* There're too pieces from Per Storby Jutbring's album, Dance of the Diaper Fairy. Snowbound, up top, and the title track at the end.\xa0

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Notes

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* Hoo boy, have I read a ton of books about the space program, thanks to my stint on the writing staff of ABC's Astronauts' Wives Club last year. \xa0So, most of this piece is just "stuff I now know." \xa0However: read numerous contemporary newspaper accounts, readily available on\xa0

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* Also key was the lovely prologue to First Man: The Life of Neil Armstrong, James R. Hanson's solid (if a little hagiographic) bio. \xa0