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Aug 23 2009, Oscar

Okay, so maybe we aren’t actually launching the Atlantis, but in a round about way, we’ll be there as American astronaut of Mexican heritage, José Hernández, piggybacks our Mexican flag and corn tortillas into space with him on...

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