Astronaut Visits Author of Poem Taken to Moon Newspaper Clipping, November 30, 1971

From collection RG 3000: Manuscripts

Astronaut Visits Author of Poem Taken to Moon Newspaper Clipping, November 30, 1971

This newspaper article describes the visit of astronaut James Irwin with James Dillet Freeman at Unity Village after Irwin had taken Freeman's poem "I Am There" to the moon during the Apollo 15 mission.

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James Irwin left a copy of James Dillet Freeman's poem "I Am There" on the moon during the Apollo 15 mission. Freeman had another poem, "Prayer for Protection," placed on the moon during the first moon landing in 1969.