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The Lines of Code That Changed Everything

Apollo 11, the JPEG, the first pop-up ad, and 33 other bits of software that have transformed our world.

by Thomas Haigh, Arthur Daemmrich, Mar Hicks, Charlton D. McIlwain, Chris Noessel, Molly Olmstead, Clive Thompson, Sara Wachter-Boettcher, Elena Botella, Ellen Stofan, Jamie Zawinski, Jane C. Hu, Lav Varschney, April Glaser, Charles Duan, Aaron Mak, Amanda Levendowski, Ethan Zuckerman, Nikki Stevens, David S. Levine, P. W. Singer, Ari Ezra Waldman, Rusty D. Pickens via Slate on October 14, 2019

Poppy Northcutt.

Inside Apollo Mission Control, From the Eyes of the First Woman on the Job

Poppy Northcutt planned the vital flight trajectories that got astronauts home from their missions to the moon.

by Erin Blakemore via National Geographic on July 18, 2019

Ronald Reagan’s Reel Life

Did the movies ever matter? They did to Ronald Reagan.

by J. Hoberman via New York Review of Books on June 29, 2019

Buzz Aldrin on the lunar surface with flag during Apollo 11.

50 Years Ago in Photos: A Look Back at 1969

Looking back at the year of the moon landing, Woodstock, and more.

by Alan Taylor via The Atlantic on February 13, 2019

Biosphere 2: A Faulty Mars Survival Test Gets a Second Act

In 1991, eight people sealed themselves inside a giant glass biosphere to practice space living. By the time they emerged, they had “suffocated, starved and went mad.”

via Retro Report on August 3, 2018

The Jet Engine Is a Futuristic Technology Stuck in the Past

Rockets and turbofans have promised to realize dreams of transportation progress—for decades.

by Christopher Schaberg via The Atlantic on February 11, 2018

40 Years Ago: A Look Back at 1977

A visual trip back in time to 1977.

by Alan Taylor via The Atlantic on October 16, 2017

From Boy Geniuses to Mad Scientists

How Americans got so weird about science.

by Lisa Hix via Collectors Weekly on August 4, 2017

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