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Chris Bell of Centerville has dreamed of seeing a space shuttle launch in person since he was a kid. Twenty years later, he made his dream come true. He drove 1,100 miles from Detroit to Titusville, Fla., with his mother-in-law and three children -- Gwynn, 7, Vance, 5, and 9-monthold Vera -- and spent the night in a tent in pouring rain to make sure his family had front row seats to this once in a lifetime event.
The rumble of rockets has drawn crowds to the Kennedy Space Center for 50 years: for the launching of Mercury, America's first space program; to the Apollo and the journey to the moon; to the Columbia, the nation's first space shuttle's flight, and now its last, the Atlantis on July 8.See the full content of this document
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Space Center On July 8.
"I was honored and thrilled I was able to see it," Bell said. "It ...
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