At 50, NASA Faces Challenges Comparable to Those at the End of Apollo

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On a sultry afternoon in July 1969, a few leading citizens of Huntsville, Ala., hoisted a former enemy rocket engineer onto their shoulders and paraded him around the courthouse square before a happy crowd. Their celebration of the Apollo 11 splashdown marked a triumph both for the engineer—Wernher...

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