
Space
A Fight for the Purity of the Night Sky
The recent controversy over a constellation of SpaceX satellites echoes a similar uproar that happened back in the early 1960s
Lisa Ruth Rand, PhD, is a postdoctoral fellow in residence and program coordinator with the Consortium for History of Science, Technology and Medicine.
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