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Then-NASA Deputy Associate Administrator Gregory Robinson stands with other officials to watch a spacecraft launch at Florida's Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in September 2016. NASA via Getty Images hide caption

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How the son of sharecroppers helped send the world's most powerful telescope to space

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Alfredo Ramos Martinez; La Malinche (Young Girl of Yalala, Oaxaca); c. 1940; oil, canvas; Framed: 1 3/4 x 52 1/4 x 42 1/2 in. (4.4 x 132.7 x 108 cm) 50 x 40 3/8 in. (127 x 102.6 cm); Collection of Phoenix Art Museum, museum purchase with funds provided by the Friends of Mexican Art Craig Smith; Albuquerque Museum hide caption

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La Malinche was a young linguist forced to serve the Spanish conquerors

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A U.S. Secret Service agent stands by as Marine One departs with President Biden aboard as he departs the White House in September 2021. Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images hide caption

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Secret Service erased texts from two-day period spanning Jan. 6 attack, watchdog says

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Stacks of ballot envelopes waiting to be mailed are seen at the Wake County Board of Elections on Sept. 3, 2020, in Raleigh, N.C. The Green Party has so far been kept off North Carolina's 2022 Senate ballot by the Democratic-led Board of Elections. Gerry Broome/AP hide caption

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North Carolina's Green Party says Democrats are working to keep it off 2022 ballot

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