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Book Review: One Giant Leap for Geopolitics – Undark Magazine
In “Operation Moonglow,” Teasel Muir-Harmony argues that the Apollo missions were driven more by politics than advancing science.
Most idealistic American kids watching the Apollo missions on TV back in the 1960s were quite content to believe that they were witnessing the opening of a grand new age of peaceful scientific exploration. Soon we’d be living on the moon, then going to Mars and beyond. After all, hadn’t we just gone from sending men up in dinky capsules for 15-minute suborbital joyrides to landing on the moons Sea of Tranquility in less than a decade?
Of course, that’s not how things worked out. After the triumph…
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