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Composer Bart Howard, born in Burlington, wrote the definitive song of the space program

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John Glenn (left), Quincy Jones and Neil Armstrong pose with records of “Fly Me to the Moon” during NASA’s 50th anniversary gala in 2008. — Bill Ingalls From Mount Pleasant’s James Van Allen (“Father of Space Science”) to Beaconsfield’s Peggy Whitson (who holds the U.S. endurance record for most cumulative time in space at 695 days) to the July 2025 TRACERS mission to study space weather, developed and tested at the University of Iowa, our state…
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Little Village broke the news in on Thursday, December 18, 2025.
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