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When 60 Minutes’ Hysteria Nearly Shot Down a NASA Mission to Saturn

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The investigative TV news show raised the alarm about the plutonium carried on the rocket. Turned out it was the wrong kind of plutonium.

David W. Brown
David W. Brown
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David W. Brown

David W. Brown

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