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“As far as actually setting up colonies of people who…” quote by John Glenn — Download Open image

“As far as actually setting up colonies of people who would live their whole lives in space, I think we're a long ways from doing that yet, and I think we have many, many decades before we could be able to even consider something like that.”

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