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		<title>“If We Could Put a Man on the Moon …”</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 16 Mar 2013 06:17:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Daniel Brenton</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[How many times have you heard that phrase?

"If we could put a man on the Moon ... why can't we end poverty here at home?"

"If we could put a man on the Moon ... why can't we put a stop to the war?"

"… end homelessness?"

"… put an end to racism?"

"… give everyone jobs that needs them?"

And, usually, the argument involves something to do with, "all that money thrown away into space." [ … ]]]></description>
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		<title>Is There a Mars in Your Future?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 10 Mar 2013 17:42:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Daniel Brenton</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.danielbrenton.com/?p=869</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[You've almost certainly heard about this around the same time I did, but it took a few days -- and a brief comment from a friend -- for it to really register with me:

Dennis Tito, the millionaire who made history in 2001 by becoming the world's first space tourist by spending eight days on the International Space Station, has announced a project that he feels will capture the imagination of the world, and re-ignite America's pioneering spirit. The venture is to send "[t]wo professional crew members – one man, one woman" on a 501 day flight to within a scant 100 miles of the planet Mars. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ascension</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Jan 2013 06:45:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Daniel Brenton</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Apollo 1]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Challenger]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Rusty Schweigert]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.danielbrenton.com/?p=863</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[As my Facebook friend Sam Hobbs reminded me, 27 years ago, the Space Shuttle Challenger (STS-51L) was destroyed in flight due to a catastrophic failure of one of their massive solid rocket boosters. And, sadly, 46 years ago yesterday, the crew of Apollo 1 died in a fire in their spacecraft during a pre-flight simulation run.

These are moments that make grown men shed tears, and I confess I am one of those men.]]></description>
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		<title>Human Commentary – Spaceship Earth</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 26 Jan 2013 07:28:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Daniel Brenton</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.danielbrenton.com/?p=862</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[We are not going to be able to operate our Spaceship Earth successfully nor for much longer unless we see it as a whole spaceship and our fate as common. It has to be everybody or nobody. ~ R. Buckminster Fuller ]]></description>
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		<title>Excuse Me, You’re in My Gratitude Adjustment</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 15 Dec 2012 07:22:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Daniel Brenton</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.danielbrenton.com/?p=856</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Good Lord -- compared to these poor folks in Newtown, Connecticut -- these people who's every single moment from this morning is a waking nightmare -- my life is a festival, a feast, a rose garden.]]></description>
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		<title>How I “Got” Gratitude</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Nov 2012 22:55:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Daniel Brenton</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.danielbrenton.com/?p=849</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Those of you who have been following me for a while but don't happen to feel the same passion about gratitude as yours truly, have probably found themselves thinking: boy, this guy has it bad, doesn't he?

I could certainly think of worse fixations, but I plead guilty as charged. (And I'll add, you should be so guilty.)]]></description>
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		<title>Surprisingly Blunt for, Well, Someone Who’s Dead</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Oct 2012 02:03:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Daniel Brenton</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[John Edward]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[life after death]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.danielbrenton.com/?p=848</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[When I say I have communicated with the dead, I am … well … dead serious.

When it comes to mediumship, I'm a lightweight. I knew a woman who does this professionally, and I have a number of friends who are intuitives, so in comparison my "achievements" are almost laughable. But on the other side are those who contemptuously dismiss the possibility of such a thing, or those who look on with open-minded wonder, thinking such a thing would be impossible for them personally.

And I will tell you outright that I can't prove any of this, and I don't insist that you believe me, but I will tell you it is true.]]></description>
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		<title>Edgar Mitchell: a Quarter of a Million Miles Out</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 07 Oct 2012 19:21:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Daniel Brenton</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8226; This quote from Dr. Edgar Mitchell has been making the rounds recently, but I wanted to match it up with an actual Apollo 14 photo of the Earth from the vicinity of the Moon. (This is NASA catalogue AS14-66-9227HR, if you&#8217;re a NASA photo geek.) Mitchell made this statement shortly after his mission, and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Universe or Nothing</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 08 Sep 2012 22:49:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Daniel Brenton</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Brian Tracy]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Darren LaCroix]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.danielbrenton.com/?p=840</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Here's a choice for me. Which would I rather do? -- 
1. Consign myself with 100% certainty to making peace with a world that's metaphorically going to Hell, and to doing the best with what I can grab that's still around? Or ...
2. Gamble that this little niggling inner sense I keep having isn't lying to me and that I, as an individual, have the power to make my life literally better than I can imagine?]]></description>
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		<title>The Moon: Touchdown Plus 43 Years, and Still Counting</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Jul 2012 06:13:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Daniel Brenton</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I ran across this photo a few days ago on Facebook (click on the photo to see the full, uncropped image -- it's really quite impressive). Once I'd seen it I had to track down the original -- this is of the International Space Station, as taken from the Space Shuttle Atlantis on July 19, 2011.
See that little dot in the ebon sky to the right of the station?
It's the Moon.
Remember that?]]></description>
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