astronaut
astronauts in the United States space program represented highly intelligent and physically fit individuals that served as excellent role models for kids who tried to emulate them. Flying on dangerous rockets into outer space requires bravery and discipline.
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Apollo Commander or Superman?
The school bus pulled up outside the science and space exhibit in Los Angeles, filled with two classes of noisy fifth graders. Bradley pushed his way to the exit door so he could get off first, but it didn’t matter, he was stuck walking behind the teacher, who stopped at the entrance door for a head count. Once they were inside, he spotted the Apollo command module. It looked amazing, just like on TV, very big and impressive. He split off from the group and ran up a metal stairway to peer through the window and into the cabin where three Astronauts would spend days, maybe weeks on their journey…
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adverse childhood experience, astronaut, human psychology, maternal introject, personal development, UFOlogy
The boy who wanted to be an astronaut
Despite Natalie’s habits of drinking, smoking, and popping pills when they were available, Natalie had brains. She also had a passion for astrology, and had taught herself how to chart people’s destinies from data she would get from magazines. “Your moon is in Scorpio, and your ascendant is in Virgo,” she would say, and go on to make a prediction that occasionally came true. People would say it’s bull, or get excited, or be afraid. She liked them to react, which in turn got her obsessed. Sometimes she would stay up half the night to finish someone’s horoscope. “It’s retrograde Mercury, be careful, nothing’s going to go right for a…