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Covers:  Wine, space, and literature—ideally, all three at once.
Doesn't Cover: Politics
Author of THE MISSION (Custom House, 2021) and THE OUTSIDE CATS (Mariner, forthcoming). Words for the New Yorker, &c. // INACTIVE ACCOUNT. Text me instead.

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David W. Brown is the author of the acclaimed book THE MISSION (Custom House, 2021), the unlikely story of a group of scientists who inveigled NASA to explore Europa; and THE OUTSIDE CATS (Mariner Books, 2025), about an intrepid team of Antarctic explorers who transformed the study of sea level rise.

He is a freelance writer and novelist whose nonfiction appears frequently in The New York Times, The New Yorker, Wine Enthusiast, and Scientific American. Other publishers include The Atlantic, Vo…

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How NASA Launched Its Asteroid Killer

How NASA Launched Its Asteroid Killer

The DART mission, in which a spacecraft knocked an asteroid off course, is a rehearsal for saving the world.

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A Wine Tasting at the End of the World

A Wine Tasting at the End of the World

The RV Araon was one small ship of many docked in Lyttelton Harbor on the morning of January 3, 2022, its sun…

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NASA's Nuclear Option May Be Crucial for Getting Humans to Mars

NASA's Nuclear Option May Be Crucial for Getting Humans to Mars

The pathway to humans on Mars lies through the atom, split. Far from Earth, whether in the void or on another…

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Why NASA Launched a Robotic Archaeologist Named Lucy

Why NASA Launched a Robotic Archaeologist Named Lucy

In a vast odyssey across the solar system, the mission will study asteroids known as Trojans that may contain…

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How to Plan a Space Mission

How to Plan a Space Mission

Rob Weryk discovered an interstellar object in his hotel room at the Marriott in Provo, Utah. Weryk, an astro…

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This Robot's Journey to an Icy Alien Moon Starts Beneath Antarctica

This Robot's Journey to an Icy Alien Moon Starts Beneath Antarctica

NASA scientists completed field tests in November of a floating rover they hope will one day travel to Europa…

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If China Wins the Moon Race, What Will It Mean for Workers?

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A couple years ago, an executive at SpaceX headquarters in Hawthorne told me about an unexpected problem they were encountering. New graduates in aerospace were beginning to think of SpaceX as the old, boring commercial space company. He said this after we’d walked through the busiest spaceflight facility I’d ever seen, where, at 2am, workers were turning wrenches on rocket engines as though it was two in the afternoon. If that was boring, I just couldn’t imagine what exciting would look like.
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How the DOGE VA Shakeup Will Impact Disabled Veterans' Benefits

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Earlier this month, an internal memo from the Department of Veterans Affairs leaked, describing plans to cut 80,000 employees—about 20% of its overall workforce—as part of streamlining efforts to satisfy the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE).
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How to Make Your '5 Things' Bullet Points Bulletproof

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On Saturday, February 22, the Office of Personnel Management emailed civil servants with the subject line, “What did you do last week?” The body of the message read, ominously: “Please reply to this email with approx.
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