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How Much Is an Astronaut’s Life Worth?
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February 2012
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Editor's Note
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Goodnight Moonshot
Turning the lights out on a government-aggrandizing metaphor
Contributors
Letters
Citings (expand) (collapse)
Columns
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Does Mars Have Rights?
An ethical case for terraforming the Red Planet
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Skyscrapers As Spaceships
The “rampant individualism” and surprising environmentalism of really tall buildings
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A Policy of Lying
Why does the most open and transparent administration in history lie about government records?
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For Richer and for Poorer
Millionaires get poorer while the poor get richer. So what’s all this talk about the income gap?
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Asset forfeiture follies
Motel Hell
Features
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How Much Is an Astronaut’s Life Worth?
NASA’s irrational approach to risk undermines its mission and costs thousands of lives.
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A Twinkle of Hope
Obama has moved space policy in the right direction, but we still have a long way to go.
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Rocket Men
Meet the 21st-century pioneers who want to take you into space
Culture & Reviews
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A Partial Space Science Fiction Reading List
From Robert Heinlein to Joan Slonczewski
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Human Martians
The people who settle the Red Planet may not look like us.
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Science Fiction Faces Facts
NASA has fizzled, but Wernher von Braun’s exuberant vision lives on.
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Space on Earth
A visit to a wooden hangar where the future is being born
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Steve Jobs, the Inhumane Humanist
The founder of Apple may have been a narcissistic jerk, but his humanity was revealed by the liberating objects he made.
Briefly Noted
Artifact
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To Boldly Go Where No Wives or Kids Can Follow
The final frontier isn't just for misfits and loners.