Janet Vertesi on NASA's 2012 funding and its implications. "In each case, NASA initially acted as a partner, only to leave ESA scrambling to make up the costs. This about-face is not only poor diplomacy, it is damaging to America’s long-term interests in space and on the ground."

‘What little they had to eat, they ate—cans of mysterious tinned meat and fishballs that supposedly contained cream. Even Nansen, the ship’s cat, went a little crazy. Eventually, penguins began flocking to the ship and the birds were—Cook wrote—“of equal interest to the naturalist and the cook.” He began eating penguins.’