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Lisa Ruth Rand
Lisa Ruth Rand is a doctoral candidate at the University of Pennsylvania, where she studies the environmental history of near-Earth space.
NASA
Gravity, the Sequel
: Why the Real Story Would Be on the Ground
We'd lose more than Facebook.
Lisa Ruth Rand
Feb 28, 2014
