Second paragraph of third chapter:The fleet also served as transportation. As we soon learned, the geographic distribution of the Gemini and Apollo contractors was well balanced. In the Los Angeles area was North American Rockwell, which made the Apollo command module and parts of the giant Saturn V. In northern California, Lockheed built the Agena ( Read more... )

Since this is eligible for next year's Hugos, I'm not going to say much about it for now. Meanwhile here is my review of the book it is based on, which I read in 2006.

And here is Neil Gaiman's anecdote about impostor syndrome, which is relevant.

‘I Think He’s a Very Dangerous Man for the Next Three or Four Weeks’
Long but fascinating analysis of Trump.
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Gibraltar wants special arrangement in Brexit treaty
But will they get it?
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Between a Rock and a Hard Place
Brexit, Gibraltar and Northern Ireland.
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Where will the out-of-control Chinese space station land?
Oops.
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Were There Irish Slaves in Early America?
No.
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Solitude, Space Junk and Sea Monsters: the Eerieness of Point Nemo
Wow.
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How history forgot the black women behind Nasa’s space race
Wow.
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Japan's Brexit note to Britain
Read it. It's brutal.
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++AN-I-MATE!++ The Power of the Daleks celebrates 50th Anniversary with animated reconstruction
Hooray!
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How Jimmy Carter saved the space shuttle
And why.
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UC Berkeley student removed from Southwest flight after speaking Arabic on plane Good grief.
(tags: race waronterror ) What happens when you appear before a judge you called a c*** on Facebook? Judge's closing words: "Don't give a toss." New Zealand, eh?
(tags: funny newzealand ) Blast off! Why has astronaut Helen Sharman been written out of ( Read more... )

What Democrats Still Don’t Get About George McGovern An impressive argument.
(tags: uspolitics history ) A traditional and an alternative explanation of why the European Union cannot communicate @jonworth writes.
(tags: eu ) Scott Kelly, back from space, will be NASA's medical lab rat A cheerful news story for a change. #fb
(tags: space ) Slovakia ( Read more... )

This is Vostok 6, the space capsule in which the first woman in space, 26-year-old Valentina Tereshkova, travelled out and safely returned to Earth in June 1963.

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