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Space is not a two-year objective. It used to be, in the early '60's, we had this eye candy of Mercury and Gemini and Apollo and every year we would do something more and more and it met those needs. But the easy stuff has been done.

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Peter Diamandis
Age: 63
Born: 1961
Born: May 20
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