How NASA Engineered Its Own Decline
The Atlantic
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Fly Me to the Moon Crashes Back Down to Earth
Jacobin
Channing Tatum and Scarlett Johansson try to win the 1969 space race in Fly Me to the Moon. But its heavy-handed history lessons ruin the fun.
NASA Launches 'Planetary Defense' Probe vs Asteroid
Borrowing a page from Hollywood’s playbook, NASA on Tuesday launched its first-ever attempt to redirect an asteroid, an important test for the future of the defense of the Earth from catastrophic impacts.
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Houston, We Have a Labor Dispute
Jacobin
Massive Iceberg Breaks Off from Antarctica
NASA
Larsen C, a floating platform of glacial ice on the east side of the Antarctic Peninsula, is the fourth largest ice shelf ringing Earth’s southernmost continent. In 2014, a crack that had been slowly growing into the ice shelf for decades suddenly started to spread northwards, creating the nascent iceberg. Now that the close to 2,240 square-mile (5,800 square kilometers) chunk of ice has broken away, the Larsen C shelf area has shrunk by approximately 10 percent.
Hidden Figures Is the Perfect Space Race Movie
Ars Technica
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