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    How NASA will defend the Earth against plagues from outer space

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    Andrew Tarantola
    Andrew Tarantola
    11.19.2017

    In the summer of 1957, the Earth stood witness as a meteorite cratered in rural Pennsylvania, bringing with it a people-eating plague never seen: an alien amoeba with the taste for human flesh. While we had Steve McQueen around for the first invasion, humanity is now defended against microbial marauders from outer space by NASA and its international counterparts.