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For thousands of years, man believed he was alone in the cosmos.

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We've always made heaven an almost infinite distance from Earth.

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Yet man was determined to push back the frontiers of his experience.

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When you're out a quarter of a million miles away,

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it's almost like you're no longer a part of it.

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You're standing back and watching the world go by.

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And now we stand on the edge of eternity,

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confronting the wonder and the danger that lies in space.

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The world is known as an unexplored world of shadows and phantoms.

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A land that knows no limits of time or space.

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From the dawn of discovery to the nightfall of catastrophe,

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journey to a new verse that we unexplained.

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The unforeseen, the unbelievable.

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A place beyond reality where no question will go unanswered.

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A place where myth and legend revolve, superstition assigns.

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It's time for our journey to begin.

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Our destiny has brought us to the threshold.

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Our dreams will help us to cross it.

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Space, the last uncharted world.

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Knowledge, the world of the unknown.

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Surround these library walls.

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And with these instruments, that knowledge can be ours.

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In 1903, while Wilbur and Orville Wright were laying the foundation for aviation,

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writers and filmmakers were looking well beyond Earthly a chapel.

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Those futurists saw our inevitable journey to the stars as a natural step in man's evolution.

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These early films were an amusing glimpse into a fantastic and imaginary world.

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But it was not these celluloid voyages that first began our conquest of space.

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It was something far more sinister.

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In the early 1930s, Germany first experimented with sophisticated ways of delivering explosives

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to their targets without a pilot's guidance.

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They developed rockets with internal controls to rain death upon England hundreds of miles away.

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Hitler and Albert Speer were looking for missiles that could deliver warheads

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against Allied targets.

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And that was what the Nazis were primarily concerned with was fighting a war.

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In spite of terrible damage, the war ended before these experiments could be perfected.

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However, the heated conflict of the Second World War soon cooled off into a competitive struggle

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between the United States and Russia, and each side sought to acquire the rocket technology

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and scientists produced by Nazi Germany.

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German scientist Fenerbahen Braun is considered to be the architect of America's space program.

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And Braun and his team took the technology from the German V-2 rocket,

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which had been created for destruction, and applied it to the development of the

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chariots that would take man to new worlds.

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On October 4th, 1957, the space race began in earnest.

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On that day, the Soviet Union launched Sputnik 1, the world's first satellite.

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Reaction was immediate a mixture of wonder and concern.

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They came from out of nowhere and put up Sputnik and the whole world was astonished,

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was frightened, was surprised, and was looking for the United States of America for an answer.

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The United States did answer, but unfortunately their space program got off to a rocky start.

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Because of these failures, the Soviets always seemed to be one or even two steps ahead of the

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United States, and on April 12th, 1961, Jore Gagarin became the first man to orbit the Earth.

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It seemed the United States would never catch up.

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The Soviets were justly proud of their accomplishments.

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But less than one month later, in a suborbital flight,

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Alan Shepard became the first American in space.

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It was this flight that inspired President John Kennedy to commit the resources of his

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nation to putting a man upon the moon by the end of the decade.

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We choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other thing,

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not because they are easy, but because they are hard, because that goal

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will serve to organize and measure the best of our energies and skills.

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America moved forward.

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America moved forward.

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Mercury, Gemini, and then Apollo.

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We were serious about going higher, farther, and faster, and coming back.

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We know it's a high-risk environment.

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We're prepared for high risk.

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We enjoy doing this exciting stuff on the leading edge of technology.

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In July of 1969, President Kennedy's dream was realized.

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Man walked on the moon.

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Mission after mission explored this barren land,

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and closer to home, the colonization of space became a possibility.

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Projects like Skylab and the Space Shuttle were developed in the 70s

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to create a working environment in space.

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In a symbolic flight in 1975, America and the Soviet Union met in the heavens,

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cooperating for the first time in the Apollo-Soyuz mission.

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But while both of these nation's space programs were marked by great success,

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they were also scarred by tragedy as well.

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On January 27, 1967, astronauts Gus Grissom, Edward White, and Roger Chaffee

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were training for their first Apollo mission when a spark set off a horrible fire

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that switched off their lives.

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Those three lives, the lives of Gus Grissom, Edward White, and Roger Chaffee,

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probably contributed more to our success in the Apollo program.

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The landing on a moon and bringing man home safely to Earth

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than any other one thing or anybody else in the entire space program.

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What came out of that fire was almost a complete rebuilding

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and remolding of the entire Apollo program,

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from hardware to the techniques of our training to our operation procedures.

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And I think it forced us individually to stop back and look at what we're trying to do.

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Even after successful launches to the moon, troubles remained.

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In April 1970, over 200,000 miles away from Earth,

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an explosion crippled the Apollo 13 spaceship.

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Through amazing ingenuity and very good luck, tragedy was averted, barely.

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Apollo 13, probably more than anyone will ever realize today,

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was a flight in which we came closer than I ever want to come again

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to losing three human beings, actually losing them in space.

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And Apollo 13 probably produced the greatest level of cooperation between industry,

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the educational institutions, and government in this country

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that has ever been seen and perhaps ever will be seen again.

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Perhaps the most searing image of the risks of space travel occurred on January 28, 1986,

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when the world witnessed the explosion of a dream and the deaths of seven brave men and women.

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The space shuttle Challenger fell victim to a combination of bad weather,

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bad equipment, and worse luck.

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In spite of these tragedies, perhaps because of them,

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man continues to explore the heavens.

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There's never been an astronaut who got on a spacecraft,

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whether it was Mercury, Apollo, or even Shuttle,

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who didn't fully understand the risk involved and who wasn't willing to take him.

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Triumph as well as tragedy have always been part of man's exploration of the unknown,

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so too is confronting unexplained phenomena.

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NASA and those who pioneered the space program chose to convey to the world an image of ultimate

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confidence. Men with the right stuff were certainly above picking lucky numbers to

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accompany the names of their spacecrafts. Or were they?

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Superstition can survive in any environment.

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Every one of the first Mercury spacecraft had a seven after its name.

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Though engineers and astronauts are among the most pragmatic men on Earth,

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apparently they felt a little luck was to be encouraged.

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One of the more engaging facets of our voyages into space is the way in which our humanity

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and spirit continues to go along for the ride.

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After the tragedy of Apollo 1, it is easy to see why the next manned flight number was a luckiest seven.

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Ironically, there were those at NASA who argued against numbering a mission 13.

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They were overruled with almost tragic results.

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But as we can see, there have been many flights, many numbers,

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and a lucky seven while it may help is no substitute for good planning

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and simple bravery. Decades of space exploration have resulted in widely publicized stories of

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great scientific discoveries. There is speculation that some reports have been purposely held back

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from the public. These tales include man's first encounter with alien beings.

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Since man first began exploring space, these rumors about encounters with extraterrestrial

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life have persisted. Is it possible that these meetings have occurred?

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Or is it just the overactive imaginations of a few tabloid editors?

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That's a characteristic of exploration. In fact, if you go back even to the days of the sailing

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ships with sea mermaids and as far as sightings of aliens in space is a vast literature of this

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published, there's a worldwide story about Apollo 11, our first moon landing, which I

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guess must not have been dramatic enough for some people, that there were alien spaceships

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lined up along a crater when the Apollo ship landed.

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Fuelling this speculation have been odd photographs taken by the astronauts

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and explained lights floating in space. And while astronauts stoutly maintain that they have never

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seen anything resembling alien life, it's not it seems for lack of trying.

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I'd love to have seen a UFO or I'd love to have seen and come back and be able to say something

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about some new extraterrestrial life. But unfortunately I can't, I don't know anyone who can at this point

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in time. I will admit when we're on the surface of moon driving that lunar rover on every time we

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came across a set of tracks, we did stop and take a good look at them and make sure they were ours

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and not somebody else's. We haven't uncutted other worldly voyages yet. Though most astronauts

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immediately dismiss these rumors of past meetings, they are not as swift in ruling out the possibilities.

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It's a certainty that life is out there and I think not only is it out there but it will be very

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recognizable. It will be very similar to life forms as we know them. Certainly there has to be

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other life out there in outer space, statistically and mathematically I think it can prove it over

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and over again. Why should we be so egotistic to believe that life is created here on earth

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and nowhere else? Bigger, faster, smarter, words that describe the hardware man will need to explore

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space into the next century. This technology is in various stages of development. Some are on the

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drawing board, others in full-scale operation. First launched in May of 1981, the Space Shuttle

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is a design created for the future, the first step in the colonization of space.

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The shuttle has more capability than simply a way in and out of space. Here's a huge laboratory

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that did an immensely good job as not only a transportation system but also a laboratory in

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space. Working in an area free of the boundaries of gravity gives scientists the opportunity to

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perform and create new experiments that have a multitude of applications and beyond the

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fights of the space shuttle the next goal is a voyage to the red planet of Mars. If we want to

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go to Mars we better have someone at least know what it's like to be in space for three years.

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That's a long time. I think we're going to see colonization one day at Mars. I think we're going

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to see a civilization grow up and build up on Mars. I think it's going to be a natural evolution of

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mankind on this earth. I think the possibility that the United States and the Soviet Union

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will work together going to Mars is increasingly likely just because the endeavor will be so expensive.

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I think it was in Ray Bradbury's Martian Chronicles the line of the first Martians are us.

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I think that the first man or woman to set foot on the planet Mars is already living today.

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But why stop there? Some believe that man's journey into space is only limited by his imagination.

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I would say let's don't settle Mars. Let's go out and see what's on some of the moons of Jupiter

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or something like that. So I believe we should keep the pace up, explore every part of the solar

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system, every part of the universe and build the best spaceships and flying vehicles.

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At present we're well past Saturn through the proxy eyes and ears of Voyager, America's unmanned

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space probe, traveling millions of miles to the farthest reaches of our solar system.

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But man's hopes for the near future of space travel are propelled by the space station,

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a vehicle America has pledged to have in orbit in the next 15 years. The United States space program

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is committed to having a permanent station in orbit by the end of the 20th century. It will have up to

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eight astronauts. It'll be self-sufficient in every way. The orbiting space station will hover

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300 miles over the Earth and will offer man the opportunity to view the universe as never before.

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In order to see what lies ahead in this near future, we must journey there.

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Well, ready? One moment. I'm having trouble locking into the destination coordinates.

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There. I think I've got it. The portal is set for September 2003. Your destination is the main

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deck of the laboratory module aboard Space Lab One. This facility has been in geostationary orbit for

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two years, seven weeks and five days. Do I need any special equipment? No, but my

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circuit shows some thermal malfunction. It might be a little cold. Thank you.

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Back in no time.

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300 miles above the Earth, it is eternal night.

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But here humanity has brought lights and life to this void.

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Our future may begin within these walls. If man is ever to learn to live and work in space,

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these are the first steps he will have to take.

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This low gravity environment is perfectly suited for the creation of new technologies, new sciences.

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In this station, men and women can live and work together to consolidate our now tentative

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foothold in space, bringing the lives the Earth contains into a new world.

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Sights and experiences that once would have been unthinkable are here, a part of everyday life.

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This is a window into a landscape that has infinite dimension, infinite opportunity.

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Space is far from empty. It is full of promise.

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And in the future when man looks at the stars, some will glitter with the light of his accomplishment.

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For a few of these stars will be space stations like these, carrying his dreams through the heavens.

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How long have I been gone? Only an hour. How was your journey?

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Oh, fascinating. It's obvious that the technology we need to continue our journey into space

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is already within our grasp. Some of that technology is already enriching our lives in ways we're not even aware of.

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Man has been exploring space for over 30 years, and some of the technology developed for these

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voyages has become an integral part of our lives. We have come a long way in a very short time,

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and experts are unanimous on one thing. We have only just begun our journey.

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I believe that going into space is a major event in human evolution, in the evolution of planet Earth.

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Probably as significant as the first sea creatures crawling out on the land.

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We need to get into space reliably and low cost, and that'll open up space to all these other things.

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Then I can start romanticizing about the trips of the planets.

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Going to places like Moon and eventually Mars, I think we're going to unlock some of the secrets,

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some of the answers that mankind has been looking for for eons and eons of years.

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We know so little about ourselves and where we came from. I don't expect all of that to be answered

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simply by a couple of people going on through space in a space band. But inch by inch, generation by generation,

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I think we'll begin to understand ourselves a little bit better, know a little bit more about

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ourselves, and in essence allow ourselves to be more part of our own environment and our environment is space.

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Time is all that stands between us and the inevitable conquest of space.

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To understand the need for exploration, we must look no further than our own history.

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For the passion that led Columbus and Magellan to discover new worlds

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is the spirit that lives within all of us.

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Space, a journey that will never end.

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It is our destiny.

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Secrets and mysteries presents information based in part on theories and opinions,

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some of which are controversial. The producer's purpose is not to validate any side of an issue,

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but through the use of actualities and chromatic recreation, relate a possible answer,

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but not the only answer to this material.