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Jun 2024
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Space Policy Edition: Is Human Spaceflig...

The Planetary Society
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Holy texts and salvation ideology. Saints and martyrs. True believers and apostates. This isn’t a religion — this is human spaceflight, argues Roger Launius, the former Chief Historian of NASA. 
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