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this generation does not intend

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to found her in the backwash

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of the coming age of space we mean to be

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a part of it we need to lead it

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we set sail on this new sea

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because there is new knowledge to be

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gained

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and new rights to be won

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and they must be won and used

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we choose to go to the moon

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we choose to go the moon in this decade

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and do the other thing

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not because they are easy but because

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they are hard

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because that goal will serve to organize

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and measure the best of our energies and

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skills because that challenge is one

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that we are willing to accept

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when we are unwilling to postpone and

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my name is sianna haasman and i'm 14 and

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8th grade at brecken north junior high

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why continue the exploration of space as

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aldrin said explanations is a part of

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who we are as human beings it's flooded

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into our brains and somehow it's wired

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into our hearts as well

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if we can see the horizon we want to

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know what's beyond and we've always been

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willing to go there

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we've become a nation and a species that

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uses the word impossible very sparingly

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because doesn't go into the moon

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impossible wasn't flying impossible

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wasn't crossing the atlantic impossible

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we know going to mars isn't impossible

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we had the technology people that would

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jump in and go and engineers and

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scientists to get them there

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for years we've led the world in space

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fight it's become what we're known for

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and it makes us proud to be americans

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are we really willing to simply give

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that away

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continuing exploration will have

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infinite benefits it'll open the door

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for us to go farther and find more

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very few things we do now will have any

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importance in 100 years the space flight

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will i want my generation to be the one

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who sent people to mars who are brave

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enough to do it hard

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after the challenger tragedy we didn't

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stop exploring we continued with the new

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fire to do better and better let's

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continue that tradition

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another huge benefit is that space is

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just too big to conquer alone the

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importance of the international space

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station is that it's just that

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international

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going out into space fixes our eyes and

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our energy skyward it makes us so that

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we are no longer americans and russians

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we are humans

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looking down at earth there are no

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national boundaries

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cultural differences no longer matter

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all the people be the american

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astronauts or russian cosmonauts are

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working towards the same goal

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exploration

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conquering is no longer used as in

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conquering nations but rather conquering

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space conquering the unknown we explore

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for all mankind

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right now this space program is an

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exploration mode but something that just

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might save our species there's a simple

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fact that someday something may go wrong

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and we need an escape route the

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dinosaurs didn't have a space program do

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you see any today

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we shouldn't halt our exploration until

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an asteroid is heading away and then

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someone say oops because then it will be

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too late

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instead we should have a way to get up

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and go and most importantly have

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somewhere to go we are just making

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discoveries that might make it possible

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to establish colonies somewhere else we

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found water on the moon and the idea of

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a lunar base is no longer just in the

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dreams of science fiction writers

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and what would it mean if there was life

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on mars or mercury even outside our

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solar system but the thing is we'll

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never know if we're not looking we

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shouldn't be content with staying on the

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ground we've been doing that for

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thousands of years

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but the most important and exciting

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reason isn't the thrill of exploration

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national unity or to have an escape

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route it's that reason we haven't even

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thought of yet something we haven't even

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dreamed could be real the solution that

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problem we haven't even encountered yet

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the more we know the more we realize

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what we don't know and what the universe

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expanding will never be done

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who knows what could be out there here's

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the diseases building materials new fuel

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sources we don't know and that's why we

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need to explore to find

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i explore space

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i go to the moon

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why mars