not to-day But soon we will go

Cut text from the 1840 “The Citizen (or, Dublin Monthly Magazine).” Background photo sequence is from the failed launch of the ST-5, June 1961. Image credit: NASA.

what boundary?! – – –

Artist sketch is early space station concept from the 1959 NASA brochure “Space The New Frontier.” (Image credit: NASA.) Cut-text forming the poem is from an out-of-print journal, “The Eclectic Museum of Foreign Literature, Science and Art, Volume 1” (1843).