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Eric Niiler

Eric Niiler is a science/climate reporter at The Wall Street Journal. His work has also appeared in WIRED, National Geographic, The Washington Post and others.

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Why Civil Rights Activists Protested the Moon Landing

In 1969, NASA was spending millions on the Apollo space program. Some argued that money could be better spent.

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