How We Could Discover Alien Life
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Fifty years ago this week, NASA launched the Apollo 17 mission. When that crew returned, President Richard Nixon said “this may be the last time in this century that men will walk on the moon”—and he was right. Now NASA is mounting its next mission to put humans (and not just men) on the lunar surface. The Atlantic’s space reporter, Marina Koren, caught me up on those plans, as well as the latest on the search for alien life, Elon Musk’s ambitions for Mars, and more.
But first, here are three new stories from The Atlantic.
- Why is Marjorie Taylor Greene like this?
- Elon Musk and Tucker Carlson don’t understand the First Amendment.
- The year without germs changed kids.
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