NASA

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• SOURCE: The New York Times
  7/9/2020
  

  Campaign Urges NASA to Rename the John C. Stennis Space Center

  The center, in Mississippi, is named for a former senator who opposed civil rights legislation and the Supreme Court ruling that desegregated the nation’s public schools.

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• 5/31/2020
  

  Fly me to the Moon: Covering the Early Space Program

  by Ron Steinman

  Will people struggling to get through a normal day be inspired by a renewed space program? Will either the government or the media commit for the long haul?  At least I knew there was a time when we all had it in us. For the future, only time will tell.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  2/25/20
  

  Katherine Johnson should also be remembered for desegregating higher education

  by Crystal R. Sanders

  The mathematician’s experience showed how valuable diversity can be for inspiring scientific progress.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  2/24/20
  

  Katherine Johnson, ‘hidden figure’ at NASA during 1960s space race, dies at 101

  Mrs. Johnson, who died Feb. 24 at 101, went on to develop equations that helped the NACA and its successor, NASA, send astronauts into orbit and, later, to the moon.

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• SOURCE: NY Times
  11/13/19
  

  NASA Renames Object After Uproar Over Old Name’s Nazi Connotations

  Scientists said an object four billion miles from Earth would be given a Native American name: Arrokoth. Its previous, informal name, Ultima Thule, had links to the Third Reich.

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• SOURCE: The Atlantic
  8/30/19
  

  Why Soviets Sent Dogs to Space While Americans Used Primates

  The goal for the Cold War rivals was the same: to prove that animals could survive in orbit so that people could, too. But why did the Soviets use dogs, while the Americans used primates?

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• SOURCE: The American Prospect
  7/19/19
  

  Fifty Years After the Moon Landing, Recalling One Small Misstep

  by Tad Daley & Jane Shevtsov

  Why did the first humans to set foot off Planet Earth plant the flag of only part of Planet Earth?

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• SOURCE: NY Times
  7/16/19
  

  Ed Dwight Was Set to Be the First Black Astronaut. Here’s Why That Never Happened.

  For a brief moment, the civil rights movement and the space race came together.

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• SOURCE: New Yorker
  7/20/19
  

  Lyndon Johnson’s Unsung Role in Sending Americans to the Moon

  As chairman of the National Aeronautics and Space Council, a White House advisory group, Johnson moved quickly to “dominate Washington space activities."

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• 7/18/19
  

  Apollo: America’s Moonshot and the Power of a National Project

  by David Carlin

  President Kennedy understood that his “goal [would] serve to organize and measure the best of our energies and skills.” We need similar thinking today.

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• SOURCE: History.com
  7/17/19
  

  The Amazing Handmade Tech That Powered Apollo 11’s Moon Voyage

  A surprising number of the Apollo spacecraft’s critical parts ended up being crafted and assembled by hand, by a vast battalion of little-known and little-heralded workers back on earth.

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• SOURCE: NY Times
  6/21/19
  

  Jill Lepore Reviews Seven New Books About the Apollo 11 Mission

  by Jill Lepore

  “At no point before the actual moon landing did any majority of Americans support the mission to land on the moon,” Lepore says in this podcast.

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• SOURCE: The New York Times
  June 23, 2019
  

  How NASA Sold the Science and Glamour of Space Travel

  by Clyde Haberman

  At the time of the Apollo 11 lunar landing mission in the 1960s, some Americans had reservations about the wisdom of reaching for the stars when troubles swelled on Earth.

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• 6/23/19
  

  The Moon Landings Have a Nazi Problem

  by Fraser MacDonald

  As we commemorate the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 moon landings, the Nazi provenance of some technology and personnel is too often kept at bay. 

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• SOURCE: Space.com
  6/15/2019
  

  Will Apollo Nostalgia Help NASA Get Its Artemis Moon Money?

  If Congress still needs some convincing, the timing may be right.

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• SOURCE: Space.com
  5/14/19
  

  'Apollo's Legacy': Space Historian Talks Lunar Science, Politics — and a Return to the Moon

  An interview with Roger Launius. 

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  3/28/19
  

  NASA has an awkward history with the whole women-in-space thing

  NASA canceled the first all-female spacewalk on March 26 because it only had one "readily usable" spacesuit that would fit Anne McClain and Christina Koch. 

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• SOURCE: The Conversation
  3/26/19
  

  Apollo 11 brought a message of peace to the Moon - but Neil and Buzz almost forgot to leave it behind

  by Michelle L.D. Hanlon

  You may be surprised to learn there are more than a hundred sites on the Moon with evidence of human activity. 

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• SOURCE: CBS
  12/21/2018
  

  Astronaut Jim Lovell remembers Apollo 8 mission 50 years later

  Lovell, Frank Borman and William Anders were the first humans to leave Earth's orbit, circumnavigating the moon 10 times.

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• 10/10/18
  

  Why Is NASA Spending Billions to Build a Rocket When Elon Musk Has a Cheaper One?

  by James Stejskal

  The answer is only partly because of the concerns about Musk.