More than 98% of the American population lives within a 30-minute drive of one of 5, 000 public-use landing facilities.

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These household and household-ish names climb the stairs and take a very public leap, sometimes landing gracefully, or at least belly-flopping for audience amusement.

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Her experience in education included stints in the Redding, North Haven and New Haven public school systems before landing at Sandy Hook Elementary in 1994.

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Access to the island is only by ferry, which must also be paid for and expanded if the public is to be granted landing rights for the first time since the Revolution.

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Of the more than 5, 500 landing facilities available for public use in the nation, only 503 have scheduled airline service with more than modicum of enplaned passengers according to the Federal Aviation Administration.

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And public participation will continue after the landing.

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Asked for specific structures that have inspired him, Mr. Payne e-mails 13 photos of old parks, giant industrial pipes, public benches and the whimsically shaped "Seuss Landing" area within Universal's Islands of Adventure theme park.

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Few of these facts were widely known by the public when Armstrong, along with Buzz Aldrin and Michael Collins, was picked for the lunar landing mission.

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