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    Rocket Man

    Aug 03, 2021 4 minutes
    By Eddie Evans

    On Oct. 4, 1957, attending the Vernon Verona Sherrill Central High School (VVS), 3 miles from the exact center of New York state, suddenly became much more fun for me. I was old enough to enroll in chemistry class, and the Russians had just launched Sputnik. The United States would not fully recover from the Sputnik embarrassment until the moon landing in 1969, and in the spirit of the race to the moon, school kids all over the country started building rockets. Schools encouraged the craze because science had suddenly gotten more popular than it had ever been. Four or five boys in my chemistry class formed the VVS Rocket Club.

    The future valedictorian of our class had read up on high

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