"Twitter was purchased in one day for $44 billion; NASA science took sixty-five years to spend the equivalent on multiple probes, visiting Mercury, Venus, Mars, and the Moon, and half that price tag again bought breath-taking visits to Jupiter, Saturn, Neptune, Uranus, and Pluto."
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Justin Hendrix
The US risks diminishing its hard-won advantages when it undermines its investment in national institutions and strips them of their people and resources, writes Janet Vertesi. As the moonshot teaches us, building up is much harder than tearing down. www.techpolicy.press/invigorating...
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