MARK WOLVERTON is a science writer who has written widely on the history of the Cold War for a variety of national publications, including American Heritage of Invention & Technology, Smithsonian Air & Space, and American History. He is the author of A Life in Twilight: The Final Years of J. Robert Oppenheimer and The Depths of Space: The Story of the Pioneer Planetary Probes. In 2016–2017, he was a Knight Science Journalism Fellow at Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

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