"I stood right here a couple years ago, after this shaft was dug, but before we’d put anything in," T.R. said. "It was the middle of the night, totally dark. Way up above me I could see a tiny disk of sky, with a star in it. One star, all by itself. I thought to myself, ‘Well, there it is! Heard about it all my life! Now I’m looking right at it!’"