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We choose to return to the moon

"We choose to return to the moon because we have unfinished business in space. America will not be left behind in scientific and commercial enterprises. This will be the start of America restoring its place in human spaceflight on the high frontier. We will open new doors to research, commerce, and industry on other worlds with this endeavor. We will establish a lunar research post in orbit and on the moon. We will provide the platform for celestial industries with a mind to opening new markets and new discoveries. And along the way we will discover more about our universe than we have ever imagined. America will be the factory that manufactures what was once fiction into reality. We have always been an entrepreneurial people and with these steps we will demonstrate our ability to do so and to succeed.” 

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