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Off We Go!

Posted on 2025-04-12 by Bartholomew Barker

First to circle the world in ninety minutes First to shed the weight of Earthly pressures First to see the firmament from the outside May we all be as brave as Yuri as we travel into the unknown   (Happy … Continue reading →

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Falling Free

Posted on 2021-04-12 by Bartholomew Barker

Instead of writing to someone else’s prompt, I wrote today’s poem for Yuri’s Night, the sixtieth anniversary of the first time we put a human in orbit. Falling Free Mission Control didn’t knowhow he’d react without weightso they locked the … Continue reading →

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