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Nature 442, 139-140 (13 July 2006) | doi:10.1038/442139b; Published online 12 July 2006

The politics of space

Steven Beckwith1

BOOK REVIEWEDThe Last of the Great Observatories: Spitzer and the Era of Faster, Better, Cheaper

by George Rieke

University of Arizona Press: 2006. 264 pp. $40 (hbk)/$19.95 (pbk)