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Our Nation's human exploration program can inspire our youth, advance our technological capabilities, and support our geopolitical objective...

At a fundamental level, space exploration-the mission of NASA-is about inspiration.

While consensus on Capitol Hill might be hard to find, there is general agreement that the President's asteroid retrieval mission inspires n...

The future of this Nation's exploration efforts lead to Mars. The first flag to fly on another planet in our solar system should be that of ...