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Sea-based launches are hitting their stride. That could lead to a lot more space missions with a lot less red tape.

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The film focuses on a series of hunger strikes organized by those incarcerated at California’s Pelican Bay State Prison, in protest of conditions in highest-security prisons. By Alissa Wilkinson ...