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“I have decided today that the United States should proceed at once with the development of systems and technologies designed to take American astronauts on landing missions to Mars. This system will center on a new generation of rockets, exploiting nuclear power, which will revolutionize and render routine long-haul interplanetary flights.
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Next Generation Exploration Conference. Mars Science and Exploration Working Group. NASA Ames Research Center, August 16–18, 2006.
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Seedhouse, E. (2009). Why go?. In: Martian Outpost. Springer Praxis Books. Praxis. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-98191-8_1
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