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->''"Life has to be more than about solving problems. There have to be things that inspire you -- that make you proud to be a member of humanity. The Apollo program is certainly an example of that. Only a handful of people went to the moon -- and yet, actually we all went to the moon. We went with them vicariously. We shared in that adventure. I don’t think anyone would say that that was a bad idea, that that wasn’t great. We need more of those things -- at least we need ''some'' of those things."''
-->-- '''Elon Musk'''
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->''"We choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard, because that goal will serve to organize and measure the best of our energies and skills, because that challenge is one that we are willing to accept, one we are unwilling to postpone, and one which we intend to win, and the others, too."''

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->''"We choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things, [[ChallengeSeeker not because they are easy, but because they are hard, hard]], because that goal will serve to organize and measure the best of our energies and skills, [[DareToBeBadass because that challenge is one that we are willing to accept, one we are unwilling to postpone, and one which we intend to win, and the others, too.too]]."''
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-->-- '''UsefulNotes/JohnFKennedy''', Rice University speech, September 12, 1961

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-->-- '''UsefulNotes/JohnFKennedy''', Rice University speech, September 12, 1961
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->''"We choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard, because that goal will serve to organize and measure the best of our energies and skills, because that challenge is one that we are willing to accept, one we are unwilling to postpone, and one which we intend to win, and the others, too."''
-->-- '''UsefulNotes/JohnFKennedy''', Rice University speech, September 12, 1961

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->''Beep, beep, beep, beep\\

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->''Beep, ->''"Beep, beep, beep, beep\\



As the Space Age begins with a surprise!''

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As the Space Age begins with a surprise!''surprise!"''



-->--'''CarlSagan''', ''Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space''

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-->--'''CarlSagan''', -->--'''Creator/CarlSagan''', ''Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space''Space''

->''"From now on, we live in a world where man has walked on the moon. And it's not a miracle, [[ChallengeSeeker we just decided to go]]."''
-->-- '''Jim Lovell''', ''Film/{{Apollo 13}}''
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->''How lucky we are to live in this time: the first moment in human history when we are, in fact, visiting other worlds.''
-->-- '''CarlSagan'''

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->''How lucky we are to live ->''"The American and Russian capabilities in this time: space science and technology mesh; they interdigitate. Each is strong where the first moment in human history when we are, in fact, visiting other worlds.''
-->-- '''CarlSagan'''
is weak. This is a marriage made in heaven -- but one that has been surprisingly difficult to consummate.”''
-->--'''CarlSagan''', ''Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space''
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-->-- '''Leslie Fish''', [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o-mZ9pKvCmk Surprise!]]

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-->-- '''Leslie Fish''', [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o-mZ9pKvCmk Surprise!]]Surprise!]]

->''How lucky we are to live in this time: the first moment in human history when we are, in fact, visiting other worlds.''
-->-- '''CarlSagan'''
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->''Done for a threat, propaganda, or prestige,\\
The point is, the thing was in the sky!''
--> '''Leslie Fish''', [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o-mZ9pKvCmk Surprise!]]

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->''Done for a threat, propaganda, or prestige,\\
The point is,
->''Beep, beep, beep, beep\\
Hello there!\\
Sputnik sails giggling through
the thing was skies\\
Red flags, red faces\\
Jump
in the sky!''
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race\\
As the Space Age begins with a surprise!''
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'''Leslie Fish''', [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o-mZ9pKvCmk Surprise!]]
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->''"I am the man who arranges the blocks,''
->''That are building a highly secret base,''
->''Hip Hip Hurrah for the U.S.S.R,''
->''We are sending our men to outer space!"''
-->-- [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hWTFG3J1CP8 A Complete History of the Soviet Union Arranged to the Melody of Tetris]]

->''Done for a threat, propaganda, or prestige,\\
The point is, the thing was in the sky!''
--> '''Leslie Fish''', [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o-mZ9pKvCmk Surprise!]]

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