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The alarmingly short distance from brilliant idea to burn-out

It is hard to believe but the first man landed on the moon 35 years ago. Even harder to believe is the speed with which he was succeeded by the last man on the moon. Right now NASA has no plans to go there again. Does this mean that manned space travel was just a dead end?

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