The Poet on the Moon

The Poet on the Moon

Written by Brian David Mooney

Part 1
There is a story that, shortly after the United States put a man on the moon, a NASA scientist was sorting through the mountain of data brought back by the astronauts and he said to his colleagues, “Someday we’ll put a poet up there and then we’ll find out what it’s really like.”

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