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If you compare NASA's annual budget to explore the heavens, that one year budget would fund NOAA's budget to explore the oceans for 1,600 years.

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Robert Ballard
Age: 82
Born: 1942
Born: June 30
Academic
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Wichita
Kansas
Robert Duane Ballard
Robert D. Ballard
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