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    LOOKING UP

    Oct 27, 2020 2 minutes
    BY CARL VON WODTKE

    mid a year marked by an unceasing stream of bad news (“the year of disappointments,” as a colleague’s young daughter deemed it), some good news arrived with the successful SpaceX launch of two American astronauts to the International Space Station and their safe return to Earth. The May

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