A visit to the newly on-the-market Jamesburg Earth Station, a massive satellite receiver that played a key role in communications with space, and its neighbors in an adjacent trailer park.
Space
Saturday, February 11
Tuesday, January 3
Carl Zimmer /
Playboy /
Jan 2012
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via
@stanmedmag
A profile of celebrity astrophysicist Neil Tyson.
Tuesday, August 23
Tyler Cabot /
Esquire /
Nov 2006
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At work with the scientists standing on the precipice of a grand unified theory of the universe. Or failure.
Thursday, July 7
Monday, February 7
Neal Stephenson /
Slate /
Feb 2011
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via
@clampants
What the twentieth century history of rocketry can tell us about innovation.
Monday, October 25
Kris Hollington /
Fortean Times /
Jul 2008
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How two Italian teenagers hacked the Soviet space program and may have heard the dying breaths of a lost cosmonaut.
Thursday, June 17
Chris Jones /
Esquire /
Jul 2004
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After the explosion of the Columbia shuttle in 2003, two American astronauts aboard the International Space Station suddenly found themselves with no ride home.
Wednesday, May 5
Gregg Easterbrook /
Washington Monthly /
Apr 1980
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via via A. Grossman
The Columbia shuttle was to be a revolution for NASA. But a year before its first launch, the shuttle was several years behind schedule, had cost $1 billion, and wasn’t guaranteed to ever get off the ground.

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