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The Pentagon Called It Its Most Spectacular Failure. NASA Just Launched the Wreckage Toward the Edge of the Universe — Under the Name of a Woman Astronomy Once Said Didn't Belong
A telescope built in secret to spy on adversaries, abandoned as a half-billion-dollar Cold War-style failure, launched August 30 to hunt dark energy — carrying the name of a woman denied a seat in the field it was denied a role in.
