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On the recordApril 22, 2013
Failure to take this influence into space, failure to lead in the development of the next human frontier, will consign our Nation to a backwater in which others, but not ourselves, will shape the destiny of human society in the generations to come.
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George H.W. Bush
Republican · Texas

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Warns against neglecting space leadership and its consequences.

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