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anthonychristian · 2 years ago
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The Best Disneyland Ride: How José Hernández Became The First Migrant Farm Worker To Land To Space?
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Thirty-seven years have passed since José Hernández saw the Apollo 17 moon being launched on a rickety television set. He became the first migrant Farm member to leave the atmosphere of Earth himself. 
A 61-year-old retired astronaut tells the sources on a week's issue, 'Think for a 10-year-old child who lived in the worst sections of Stockton, California, observing an old vacuum-tube-technique console television with grandma's essential knitting and rabbit-ear antenna on the bottom'. 
He recalled the pivotal, 'There is only me who kneeled through the black-and-white television and there is Gene Cernan who walked on the moon. It is cold December evening in the 1972 and that is what I wanted to land in'.
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