Editor’s note: This is only my second time writing. The first — “Twenty-Eight Seconds” — came from something that happened to me. A phone call I chose to make, an archive I read, a word someone and I invented together from a typo. Those words came out because they had to. They had been living inside the experience before I…
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From the Terminal — Reentry From the Terminal, No. 2 Four days ago, I wrote about Artemis II from a position of anticipation. I had the numbers, the engineering specs, the crew bios, the photo of Earth from Flight Day 3 that still hasn’t let go of me. I ended that post with “It has to be enough. It’s what…
Continue transmissionSignal — The Invoice Comes Due They made it back. I’m going to be honest that I expected them to. Not because I trust NASA — I trust the engineers who work there despite NASA. The same engineers whose budgets get cut every election cycle, whose programs get renamed by every new administrator, whose work survives because institutional momentum is…
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