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In 1969, four computers exchanged data packets across telephone lines for the first time. The researchers at UCLA, Stanford Research Institute, UC Santa Barbara, and the University of Utah who built ARPANET weren't building a commercial network. They were solving a specific defense communications problem, and nobody was calling it an economy for good reason: it wasn't one yet.

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A human spacecraft is not finished when it reaches orbit. It is not finished when it docks, lands on the Moon, or circles Earth for months. It is finished only when the crew is back on the ground alive, reachable, and in condition to be recovered. That fact shaped the entire history of crewed spacecraft design.

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The story of humanity's reach into deep space is, in large part, the story of a network of dish antennas scattered across three remote corners of the planet. Without the Deep Space Network, or DSN, the images from Voyager 1 would never have arrived, the landing of Curiosity would have gone unwitnessed in real time, and the [New Horizons](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New Horizon...

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The solar system is old. At roughly 4.6 billion years, it's had plenty of time to sort itself out, settle into predictable orbits, and stop surprising people. And yet, the more spacecraft venture into its outer reaches, the more unexpected things they find. Some of what's known about these eight planets, hundreds of moons, and billions of smaller bodies flatly refuses to fit the...

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It is one of the most famous questions in science, and it was asked, as legend has it, over lunch. Enrico Fermi, the physicist who helped build the first nuclear reactor and whose name graces a unit of length so small it makes an atom look generous, was chatting with colleagues about the possibility of alien life when he suddenly asked ‘where is everybody?’

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