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How the Cold War Arms Race Fueled a Sprint to the Moon
After the Soviet Union sent the first human safely into orbit, the U.S. government doubled down on its effort to win the race to the moon.
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Retro Report
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April 11, 2021
I Was Poised to be the First Black Astronaut. I Never Made it to Space.
Ed Dwight Jr. trained to go to the moon, but racism in the selection process kept him out of space.
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Ben Proudfoot
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New York Times Op-Docs
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December 19, 2019
Valentina Tereshkova and the American Imagination
Remembering the Russian cosmonaut Valentina Tereshkova, the first woman in space, and how she challenged American stereotypes.
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Robert L. Griswold
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Matthew Wills
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JSTOR Daily
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November 13, 2018
Selling the American Space Dream
The cosmic delusions of Elon Musk and Wernher von Braun.
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David Beers
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The New Republic
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December 7, 2020
Whose Apollo Are We Talking About?
A review of Roger D. Launius's "Apollo’s Legacy" and Teasel E. Muir-Harmony's "Apollo to the Moon."
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Asif Siddiqi
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Los Angeles Review of Books
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August 28, 2019
How Stanley Kubrick Staged the Moon Landing
To understand America, you can start with Apollo 11 and all that is counterfactual that’s grown around it.
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Rich Cohen
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The Paris Review
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July 18, 2019
What John F. Kennedy’s Moon Speech Means 50 Years Later
“We choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard.”
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Marina Koren
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The Atlantic
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July 15, 2019
Should the Moon Landing Site Be a National Historic Landmark?
Some archaeologists argue it’s essential to preserve the history of lunar exploration. But would it represent a claim of U.S. sovereignty over the moon?
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Sophie Fessl
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JSTOR Daily
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July 10, 2019
The Rocket Scientist Who Had to Elude the FBI Before He Could Escape Earth
Frank Malina's Scientific Dreams Were as Radical as His Politics.
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Fraser MacDonald
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Literary Hub
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June 26, 2019
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How NASA Sold The Science And Glamour of Space Travel
At the time of the Apollo 11 landing, some Americans had reservations about reaching for the stars when troubles swelled on Earth.
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Clyde Haberman
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Retro Report
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June 23, 2019
During the Space Race, Gas Stations Gave Away Free Maps to the Moon
Standard Oil was not about to be left earthbound.
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Kyle Carsten Wyatt
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Atlas Obscura
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May 1, 2019
The Triumph and Near-Tragedy of the First Moon Landing
Across the cislunar blackness, we set sail for a landing that almost didn't happen.
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Eric Berger
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Ars Technica
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December 19, 2017
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When Science Was Big
This year's Nobel Prize in physics is a blast from the past of Cold War-era research investment. Is that era gone for good?
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David Singerman
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October 19, 2017
Sputnik Launch 60 Years Ago Was Slow to Resonate With Americans
The 1957 launch of Sputnik wasn’t necessarily the start of the US-Soviet space race that Americans think of today.
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Elizabeth Howell
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Seeker
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October 2, 2017
Trying to Remember J.F.K.
On the centenary of his birth, seeking the man behind the myth.
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Thomas Mallon
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The New Yorker
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May 22, 2017
Christmas in the Space Age: Looking Back at the Wild Designs of Mid-20th-Century Holidays
There are two critical periods for Christmas. One is the Victorian era. The other is the 1960s.
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Sarah Archer
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Todd Vanderwerff
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Vox
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November 25, 2016
What Spaceflight Owes to Jimmy Carter: The President's Little-Known NASA Legacy
Jimmy Carter, skeptical of NASA's shuttle, saved it with funding despite delays and opposition. His Voyager message carries hope deep into space.
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Denise Chow
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NBC News
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December 30, 2024
Apollo 11 Launch: "If You Can Survive the Simulations, the Mission is a Piece of Cake"
The grueling, relentless simulations astronauts that prepared the astronauts for quick decision-making in space.
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Myles Burke
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BBC News
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July 15, 2024
What Was the “Paradigm Shift”?
When Thomas Kuhn coined the term, he wasn’t referring simply to “out of the box” thinking.
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Audra J. Wolfe
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The New Republic
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May 22, 2024
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The Politics of Fear Is Damaging American Education—And Has Been for Decades
Politicians have often sought to remedy educational panic with remedies that do more harm than good.
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Diana D'Amico Pawlewicz
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Made By History
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December 14, 2023
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Panic Over Spy Balloon Echoes Misguided Alarm Over Sputnik
In this case, freaking out makes even less sense because spy balloons are historically a sign of weakness.
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Kenneth Osgood
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Made By History
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February 13, 2023
The Effective Conservative Governance of Ike Eisenhower
The conservative successes of the Eisenhower administration have been too quickly forgotten.
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Geoffrey Kabaservice
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The American Conservative
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October 15, 2022
Making Steel All Shiny and New
When it seemed that steel had lost its gleam with American consumers, the industry turned to marketing to make it shine again.
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Matthew Wills
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Nicolas P. Maffei
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JSTOR Daily
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January 10, 2022
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Fear About China’s New Space Weapon Echoes Older Worries About War From Space
And that’s exactly why there is no need to overreact.
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Stephen Buono
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Made By History
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October 26, 2021
Operation Paperclip and Nazis in America
The two decades leading up to WWII featured numerous connections between America and Nazi Germany that reveal Nazism was never simply a foreign or enemy force.
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Ben Railton
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The Saturday Evening Post
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September 20, 2020
Sanctuary or Battlefield?
Fighting for the soul of American space policy.
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Stephen Buono
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Perspectives on History
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July 15, 2020
Ike's Military-Industrial Complex, Six Decades Later
As Eisenhower predicted, there is no balance left, as U.S. policy is reduced to who we threaten, bomb, or occupy next.
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James P. Pinkerton
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The American Conservative
on
January 15, 2020
More UFOs Than Ever Before
What explains the apparently sudden spike in intergalactic traffic after WWII? If Cold War anxieties are to blame, why have sightings persisted?
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Rich Cohen
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The Paris Review
on
August 26, 2019
Inventing the Environment
A review of two new books on the postwar origins of “the Environment.”
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Carolyn Taratko
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Los Angeles Review of Books
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August 15, 2019
Inside Apollo Mission Control, From the Eyes of the First Woman on the Job
Poppy Northcutt planned the vital flight trajectories that got astronauts home from their missions to the moon.
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Erin Blakemore
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National Geographic
on
July 18, 2019
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