In December 1972, Robert Palmer wrote about the thoughts, influences, and unconventional musical stylings of jazz saxophonist and composer Ornette Coleman.
The year you were born, Madeleine Z. Doty wrote about her experiences in Russia during the country’s revolution a year earlier.
In August 2012, Robert Lavine wrote about the high level of happiness in Iceland.
In July 2000, Francis X. Rocca wrote about Galeazzo Ciano's account of the political side of the Axis war efforts.
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Over the years, the moon landing has come to be lauded as the pinnacle of human achievement, although it was often derided at the time. In 1963, NASA astronauts took to The Atlantic to plead the case for landing on the moon.
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With NASA's Cassini-Huygens mission in 2005, humans landed a probe in the outer reaches of the solar system for the first time, a moment Ross Andersen called the most glorious mission in the history of planetary science.
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