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Half a century has passed since humans began the conquest of space. Satellites, lunar landings, space stations, robot rovers on Mars, solar and deep space observatories, and probes to the edges of interstellar space have sent back a flood of scientific information. Space exploration has fundamentally changed our lives, from the classroom to the marketplace to cyberspace.
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Bourland, C.T., Vogt, G.L. (2009). Introduction. In: The Astronaut's Cookbook. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-0624-3_1
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