The Tragedy of the New Space Race ^34.9%

The New Republic - By Samanth Subramanian - 6/29/2026, 10:00 AM

Biased Writer Voice 45% - Negativity Bias 29.3% - Post Hoc (False Cause) 12.9%

Two versions of history began when, one fall night in 1957, a two-stage rocket lifted off from the Baikonur Cosmodrome and deposited a Soviet satellite called Sputnik into orbit around Earth. The first version is the one that is well-known: the grand romance of a terrestrial species bounding out of its cradle, the sharpening of America’s... more