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This as-told-to essay is based on a transcribed conversation with Marshburn, a 64-year-old former NASA astronaut who is now a VP at Sierra Space. The following has been edited for length and clarity.I’ve spent a total of 337 days in space.During that time, I completed five spacewalks. Stepping out of…
When I told people I was spending $20,000 to take my two kids to Bora Bora, the reactions ranged from wide-eyed surprise to outright judgment.”You’re taking them to a five-star resort?” someone asked. “Don’t you have college to pay for in the Fall?” said another. The answer to both was,…
By the time we reached our 40s, my husband, Dave, and I had built a life we thought we’d always dreamed of.We lived with our two greyhounds in an over-3,000-square-foot home outside Boston that we owned. We were both hustling and climbing the corporate ladder — he in the tech…
When Charlie and Thomas were born, I jokingly called them “Copy” and “Paste” in the hospital — my first official dad joke. But behind that joke was a genuine concern about how society would perceive them as identical twins. As parents, we set out to ensure that our boys would…
