‘Our country is the mission’: more than 100 ex-Nasa astronauts launch new voting campaign

What happened

According to The Guardian’s linked report, ‘Our country is the mission’: more than 100 ex-Nasa astronauts launch new voting campaign, Astronauts for America liken effort to instill trust and faith back in constitution’s principles and democratic institutions to ‘making a course correction’ Orbiting 250 miles above the US in the international space station, astronaut Cady Coleman did not look down and see red or blue states, sanctuary cities or communities occupied by thousands of federal immigration enforcement agents in camouflage uniforms and automatic weapons. What she saw was a single land, from Pacific to Atlantic, no borders or partitions, just a united America, and a population valuing its equality while convinced that what brought them together was far greater than anything that divided them. Continue reading…

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Source

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