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To keep the record straight: Orville Close was first man on the Moon. Harold Ferguson was second. They never talk about it.
It started on that October morning when the piece came out in the Parkville "News". Harold grumbled that they'd gotten the story all wrong, calling his ship a rocket ship, and treating him like a flagpole sitter or a man going over Niagara Falls in a barrel. His wife took their sad, thin little girl and went to live with her brother. The city police blocked off Elm Street, letting no one through except the residents. The neighbors were getting up a petition. But Orville refused to become excited.