Jan 22, 2021
The books we love coming out this week include new titles from Ben Hopkins, David W. Brown, and Jeff Wheeler.
John Ghazvinian. Knopf, $38.95 (688p) ISBN 978-0-307-27181-5
The hostility between the U.S. and Iran is a tragic lapse from a once-friendly relationship, according to this sweeping study. Historian Ghazvinian (coeditor,
American and Muslim Worlds Before 1900) surveys American-Iranian relations back to colonial Americans’ support for Persia in conflicts with the Turks and Tehran’s perennial desire for closer ties to the U.S. as a counterweight against British and Russian domination in the 19th and early 20th centuries. Iranians’ pro-American outlook soured, he contends, when the C.I.A. orchestrated the 1953 coup against liberal nationalist Prime Minister Mohammad Mosaddeq and then lavished arms on Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi’s unpopular dictatorship. After the Shah’s overthrow in 1979, Iranian rage and American cluelessness precipitated the U.S
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2020 was a record-setting year for space, but 2021 is shaping up to be at least just as busy, according to a new Space Foundation report.
Jazz ShawPosted at 6:31 pm on December 20, 2020
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While 2020 has largely been a huge crap sandwich in many ways, it’s hard to deny that it’s been a very big year for space news. We saw astronauts ascending to the ISS from American soil in an American-made rocket for the first time in nearly a decade. And when he wasn’t sending people aloft, Elon Musk was launching literally hundreds of satellites, both his own and those of commercial customers, up into space. But both NASA and the private sector have had their eyes on bigger goals. There are ongoing plans to put people back on the moon in the next few years, but Mr. Musk has his eyes set on Mars.
For NASA, It Should Be Mars or Bust
After decades of nostalgia for the Apollo program, it’s time for NASA to send astronauts on a radical new adventure, worthy of America’s pioneering spirit
NASA astronaut Andrew Morgan conducts a space walk in Earth orbit in 2019 to upgrade power systems on the International Space Station. Photo: NASA By David W. Brown Dec. 18, 2020 10:52 am ET
Since the Apollo program ended almost 50 years ago, every newly elected U.S. president has been vexed by the same question: Where next to send astronauts?
NASA’s current target is the moon, but the moon belongs to a previous generation of American pioneers. A grander, more fitting ambition for the space program that first landed human beings on another heavenly body is Mars a destination that NASA has been preparing to reach since the days of its early visionaries. It is now time to realize their dream.