Chasing the Moon: How America Beat Russia in the Space Race
We didn’t know where we would go after NASA retired the space shuttle in 2011—our only means of reaching the International Space Station—with no replacement in place. After the remaining space shuttles rolled off the launch pads and into museums, American astronauts had to ride shotgun to the station on Russian rockets. The tickets cost $81 million
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what I want is that most people really care about science and view scientific achievement as a pinnacle of our best qualities as leaders of Western civilization. This is one point that Ayn Rand, the novelist, philosopher, and oft eccentric worshipper of individual excellence got right, namely that we should all revere creators and scientific innova
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“Everyone knows about Machu Picchu and, less so of course, places like Espiritu Pampa and Choquequirao. That’s because Bingham wrote about those things in his books. But he went to dozens of places, some that almost no one else has gone to since. He was dealing with corruption, thievery, people of dubious character—and he was under a lot of pressur
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