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Since I can remember I have always had a very strong interest in space and also in space shuttles. When I was trying to find a topic, my brother brought home a book from his school. That night I read the entire book, hoping I would find ideas for my history fair project. While I was reading, I came across a fact about the moon and found it interesting. I knew that I needed to find a topic for my project so I decided to do a project about one of the NASA space shuttle launches. I just needed to decide on which one to do. I read about Apollo space launches to see if I could find one I wanted to use for my project. After reading about a few other launches I decided I was going to do my project on Apollo

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