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New Model Astronauts — The Man of Words
Presented without additional commentary because when it comes to Alasdair’s writing, it truthfully doesn’t require any.
I somehow managed to miss this post about the evolution of the astronaut mythos in book and film when it was originally posted last month, but for all NASA kids who grew up in the shadow of the Saturn V, the Marshall Spaceflight Center, who know their grandparents laid hands on the science that got us to the stars, it’s required reading.
no shrinking violet 