Kent kids blast into space with new, astronaut-themed downtown park

15 Jun 2023
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KENT — One moment, Kyoshi Wolfe-Hong was walking down a hot stretch of sidewalk with his dad. The next moment, the 3-year-old was driving a space exploration vehicle across the cratered surface of the moon.
An imaginary portal to outer space opened last month at Kherson Park, which has been redeveloped to serve downtown Kent’s growing population and to get kids thinking about working in the city’s space sector. The 0.2-acre park is tiny, but Kent is changing and big things are happening at local companies like Blue Origin, which just won a $3.4 billion contract from NASA.
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