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Current plans for our return to the Moon seem a little too vague to be successful.
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NASA is trying to replay history at the cost of keeping its launch systems and exploration programs stagnant.
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Thanks to budget constraints and slow-walking replacement vehicles, NASA is about to left without a way to get humans in orbit without paying Russia for a ride.
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Celebrating Apollo 11's lunar landing isn't just celebrating an American triumph. It's celebrating how far humanity can go and how much it can do.
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Colony ships wouldn't just be small cities floating through space. They could become their own little, self-contained worlds.
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NASA is trying to protect its budget from finance wonks by talking like them.
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Even with a pro-science administration, NASA should still be worried about its funding as apathy to science runs deep among politicians.
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NASA is going to bat for its new rocket, even if it doesn't seem to be the best idea for it to do so.
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No matter how much we try to move forward with space exploration, we're being held back.
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NASA is caught between doing science and pleasing skeptical penny-pinchers.