Space Shopper - 28 January 2014

I have appropriated a near-homophone of a late-sixties phenomenon to title amusingly a tribute to an event of the early 1960s surprisingly (until you know the history) located on the Caribbean island of Grand Turk. On 20 February 1962, the Mercury-Atlas Friendship 7 capsule, with John Glenn on board, orbited the Earth three times before returning to the Atlantic near Grand Turk. A replica capsule is part of this display in the slightly incongruous surroundings of the Cruise Center shops.

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