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“We made more than just scientific discoveries... we rediscovered how much people love exploration.”

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Competition-driven innovation and price pressure that commercial practices foster can only make human spaceflight ever more common and U.S. leadership in this domain ever…

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Of course Pluto is a planet: It's massive enough to have its shape controlled by gravity rather than material strength, which is the hallmark…

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It used to be said that Pluto is a misfit. But now we know Earth is the misfit. This is the most populous class…

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The Kuiper belt region, which I call the third zone because it lies beyond the rocky terrestrial planets and beyond the giant planets, is…

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I think if you were between maybe 6 and 16, there was nothing like Apollo, and I wonder if there can be something like…

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If you put Earth out beyond Neptune, you wouldn't be able to call it a planet because it couldn't clear its zone.

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Why would you listen to an astronomer about a planet?

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When we first sent missions to Jupiter, no one expected to find moons that would have active volcanoes. And I could go down a…

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Pluto is still active four and a half billion years into its history. It was expected that small planets like Pluto would cool off…

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The Kuiper Belt is the largest mapped structure in our planetary system, three times as big as all the territory from the sun out…

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If two billion people wanted to watch a robot fly by Pluto, imagine what it will be like when the first humans step on…

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To keep everyone invested in your vision, you have to back up a little bit and really analyze who the different stakeholders are and…

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“Mars looks like Vegas without the casinos.”

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My familiarity with the successful use of very long steel ropes for mining purposes naturally suggested their adaptation to the new purpose of deep…

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One day I may commit to a city and settle down and do the restaurant thing - when I'm ready and however and whatever…

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When you're younger, you're more selfish, because there's so much self-exploration, you're in your own mind.

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“The depth of a man is a limit only he can know, should he have the courage to explore into the dark.”

Kyle Schmalenberg

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Fiction, maybe art in general, is a tentative, uncertain enterprise; it's not science, it's an exploration, but you never find much in the way…

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If I had to define my philosophy, it would be about exploration, a journey, a story-telling.

Hussein Chalayan

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“Life is short. The world is big. It awaits your exploration. If you're not living on the edge, you're just taking up way too…

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I stayed in the astronaut program until 1993. People ask me why I left. I thought I had a lot of things to contribute…

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To those of us who remained committed mainly to the exploration of moral distinctions and ambiguities, the feminist analysis may have seemed a particularly…

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Prominent exploration experts have recently predicted that total world production of liquid oil will peak by about the end of this decade-or a few…

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