To Neil Armstrong and Buz Aldrin, the first men to walk on another world; to Michael Collins, who waited; and to those who died trying, Gus Grissom, Roger Chaffee, Ed White, Georgi Dobrovolsky, Viktor Patsayev, Nikolai Volkov, and all the others.
First words
Before the sun burned, before the planets formed, there were chaos and the comets.
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Last words
The asteroid and a score of comets pulled free of the black giant and began their long fall into the maelstrom.
