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Going back to the moon is not visionary in restoring space leadership for America. Like its Apollo predecessor, it will prove to be a dead end littered with broken spacecraft, broken dreams and broken policies.

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Buzz Aldrin
Age: 94
Born: 1930
Born: January 20
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