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In 1970, a?Zambia-based nun named Sister Mary Jucunda wrote to?Dr. Ernst Stuhlinger,?then-associate director of science at NASAs?Marshall Space Flight Center,?in response to his?ongoing research?into a piloted mission toMars.?Specifically, she asked how he could suggest spending billions of dollars on such a project at a time when so many children were starving on Earth.Stuhlinger soon sent the following letter of explanation to Sister Jucunda, along with a copy of?Earthrise, the iconic photograph of Earth taken in 1968 by astronaut William Anders, from the Moon (also embedded in the transcrip