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A blooming business

Art Chadwick, who owns Chadwick & Son Orchids, near Richmond, Virginia, will happily sell you an orchid. But he’s also willing to board your plant while you’re on vacation. And yes, there are people who will pay to put up their beloved flowering plants, to make sure they’re kept in clover. Steve Hartman reports. Source

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Open: This is “Face the Nation,” July 14

This week on “Face the Nation,” Margaret Brennan talks to acting commissioner of U.S. Customs and Border Protection Mark Morgan, Sen. Dick Durbin, former Homeland Security Sec. Jeh Johnson and NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine. Plus, historian Douglas Brinkley with his new book, “American Moonshot.” Source

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The seamstresses who fashioned Apollo’s spacesuits

When NASA needed a lunar spacesuit for the Apollo astronauts, they turned to the International Latex Corporation, and a cadre of women who normally sewed latex bras and girdles, to create a softer, more flexible spacesuit. Tracy Smith talked with some of the seamstresses who fashioned protective wear that would mean life or death for men in space, and with Apollo 17 astronaut Harrison “Jack” Schmitt who was the last man to walk, and jump, on the lunar surface. Source

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