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“If you're going to go into space, you have to have an objective, a mission. Wher…” — Jim Lovell
If you're going to go into space, you have to have an objective, a mission. Where do you want to go? Earth orbit? The moon? Mars? What's the technology to get there? You develop the technology for the mission.
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