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"My view is that we should go back to the moon, build up the infrastructure to make flights there com..." — Jim Lovell
My view is that we should go back to the moon, build up the infrastructure to make flights there commonplace - be comfortable with it - then use that infrastructure to expand and go to Mars.
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