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Nuclear Folly: A History of the Cuban Missile Crisis

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Gunship Pilot: An Attack Helicopter Warrior Remembers Vietnam

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One Giant Leap: The Impossible Mission That Flew Us to the Moon by Charles Fishman

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Way back in the 1960s we stretched 240,000 miles to the Moon and back—not just to touch it and return; we flew electric cars to the Moon and spent hours driving around in them. Now, more than 50 years into the Space Age, all we do in ...more

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So I’ve been lamenting this very sentiment since the shuttles were retired. Yes, they were old...but retiring them without a replacement ready to go made (and still makes) no sense to me.

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This was a very bad political choice that the US will soon regret. We were the leaders in space, now we pay the arusdians to take our astronauts to the ISS, which we substantially paid for when the US…