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Laura Winter
Laura Winter has lived in and reported from eight countries on three continents. The very first beat she had as a fledgling journalist was covering La... Canada Flintridge, which included NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, for the Glendale News Press. She is returning to covering space for Al Jazeera Digital. If you want to impress her, she happens to also be passionate about baseball.
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