And it’s not the only one, either. Go north on I-25 from Las Cruces, NM, and you’ll find one. Go west on I-10 from Las Cruces, and you’ll find another.

When I went to Johnson Space Center a few years back, I got teary when we got to the Saturn V.

I haven’t been to Kennedy since 1994. I need to go back.

Brilliant as usual. 💜

Oh yeah! In fact, I’m pretty sure I met Kenneth when I went to London for a conference at King’s College London!

@footnotinghistory.bsky.social is small but mighty.

Hi! Your answer makes a lot of sense, and you’re absolutely right that classicizing literally everything is something the founders would do.

In the late-medieval/early modern context there is a lot of mythologizing Ethiopia re: Prester John, too.

Thank you so much! 😊

I absolutely will!

Aw man, thanks, Mike!