Stars My Destination
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Views of the extravehicular activity during STS 41-B
Credit: NASA
Without manned spaceflight:
Gully Foyle is my name
America my nation.
Deep space is a cold cold place,
And death's my destination.
With manned spaceflight:
Gully Foyle is my name
And Terra is my nation.
Deep space is my dwelling place,
The stars my destination.
---paraphrase of Alfred Bester, from Tyger, Tyger, 1956