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Any great enterprise is the product of people. It is people who make things happen. Institutions are the means by which great enterprises are realized, but it is the people in these institutions, and in particular the leaders of these institutions, that drive the mechanisms to create great products. And so it is in the space exploration enterprise.
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Huntress, W.T., Marov, M.Y. (2011). Key players. In: Soviet Robots in the Solar System. Springer Praxis Books(), vol 1. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-7898-1_2
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