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Peenemünde, Usedom Island, Baltic Sea, Germany

And I think its gunna be a long, long time
'Til touch down brings me round 'gain to find
I'm not the man they think I am at home.
oh no oh no, I'm a Rocketman,
Rocketman. burning out his fuse up here alone.
-Elton John

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Charles Stankievech with Mai Hofstad Gunnes

August 10, 2009

Peenemünde, Usedom Island, Baltic Sea, Germany

At the birthplace of space travel, Rocketman completes the Gravity's Rainbow journey by finding rocket 00000 at the launch site of the secret Nazi laboratory at Peenemünde off the coast of Germany in the Baltic Sea.

In front of a curtain of rainbow coloured smoke, Rocketman ignites the rocket to Elton's John lamentation of space travel composed after Ray Bradbury's short story with the same title.

Worlds collide at the supersonic speed of the V-2 rocket engineered here by Werner Von Braun, once Nazi lead scientist and then later key figure in the US military and NASA's rocket programs--including the Space Race against the Russians to reach the Moon.