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Young Americans deserve a 21st-century Moonshot to Mars

  • Written by Vahe Peroomian, Associate Professor of Physics and Astronomy, University of Southern California – Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences
Mars should be the next destination for humankind.Gorodenkoff/Shutterstock.com

“Hidden Figures” and “First Man” were arguably the most inspirational space-themed movies of the last several years. Both, though, had to reach back to the glory days of John Glenn and Neil Armstrong. The faces of my children after watching these...

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