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“Now is the time to develop the moon,” said Aldrin, (but) “why should we lead it? We’ve already won that race 40 years ago. Going back to the moon is doing something we’ve done already. It would interfere with the main objective which is for a leader of a nation, which now is possible, to proclaim an initiative, a 2-phase initiative, for permanence on Mars. That leader will go down in history. And if he doesn’t do it, the next president will,” Aldrin said. |
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