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Hitting the Books: How NASA survived the Reagan era ‘Dark Ages’ – Engadget
The US has not always led from the front when it comes to interplanetary exploration.
This week, Americans celebrated the successful delivery of NASA’s Perseverance rover to its destination on the Martian surface, marking the dawn of a new era of interplanetary exploration. However, when it comes to searching the solar system around us, the US has not always led from the front. During the Reagan administration, for example, the agency saw its budget pared down in favor of building up arms ahead of an anticipated Cold War faceoff with the Soviet Union, as we see in this excerpt from…
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