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The Guardian - US
The Guardian - US
Science
Richard Luscombe

‘Our country is the mission’: more than 100 ex-Nasa astronauts launch new voting campaign

A woman smiling
US astronaut Cady Coleman being carried away from the landing site of the Soyuz capsule in May 2011. Photograph: Mikhail Metzel/AP

Orbiting 250 miles above the US in the international space station, astronaut Cady Coleman did not look down and see red or blue states, sanctuary cities or communities occupied by thousands of federal immigration enforcement agents in camouflage uniforms and automatic weapons.

What she saw was a single land, from Pacific to Atlantic, no borders or partitions, just a united America, and a population valuing its equality while convinced that what brought them together was far greater than anything that divided them.

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