But in the 40 years since, this assumption has begun to seem more and more problematic. Once we had reached the moon and the space race was won, the fantastic expense and danger of space travel became ...

Stephenson, the bestselling author of Anathem, Reamde, and Cryptonomicon, is also a respected technologist and futurist, having been the first employee at Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin and spent seven years ...

Yep, that's pretty much the core of it. The guy who went to get the core of the comet created enough waves, and he was just your typical billionaire-with-a-space-program. The waves caused by Julia ...