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As NASA prepared for the launch of Apollo 11 in July 1969, many African American leaders protested the billions of dollars used to fund "space joyrides" rather than help tackle poverty, inequality, and discrimination at home. This volume examines such tensions as well as the ways in which NASA's goal of space exploration aligned with the cause of racial equality. It provides new insights into the complex relationship between the space program and the civil rights movement in the Jim Crow South and abroad.

"NASA Announces Extension of 9 Spacecraft Missions" is from the July 02, 2016 Science section of The New York Times. It was written by Kenneth Chang and narrated by Fleet Cooper.

For thousands of years, mankind advanced slowly, then suddenly, we took to the skies, created machines to think for us, and devised weapons of mass destruction dwarfing the industrial revolution with the technology revolution. The scientific advancements we now consider part of our everyday lives surged forward with one peculiar event - global sightings of UFO's. In 1936, a UFO crashed in the Black Forest of Germany. Hitler ordered a full scale investigation and the Nazis began reverse engineering the technology.

For thousands of years mankind advanced slowly, then suddenly we took to the skies, created machines to think for us, and devised weapons of mass destruction, dwarfing the industrial revolution with the technological revolution. The scientific advancements we now consider parts of our everyday lives surged forward with one peculiar event - global sightings of UFOs. In 1936 a UFO crashed in the Black Forest of Germany. Hitler ordered a full scale investigation, and the Nazis began reverse engineering the technology.