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After NASA mourns the passing of the legendary astronaut Neil Armstrong, a spectral Saturn V rocket inexplicably ignites from the Cape Canaveral launchpad. The ghostly launch shakes the ground and sends telemetry to the Moon, reaching the point where a human pilot would need to control a descent. NASA is stunned when the phantom rocket repeats this extraordinary event each month. As public interest wanes, the launch fades to near invisibility, reminding readers that reality is shaped by perception. Jerry Oltion expands the Nebula Award‑winning novella to explore how we interpret and construct reality through shared experience.
First publish date: 2000
Genre: General Fiction/General Fiction
Authors: Jerry Oltion
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