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When you’ve literally written the book on the universe, been to the edge of the atmosphere, appeared on “The Simpsons” and “Star Trek,” and received the Presidential Medal of Freedom, all while being confined to a wheelchair and surviving 40 more years than you were supposed to, well… that’s the very definition of being a…

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