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"And what is it that will make it possible to spend 20 billion dollars of your money to put some clown on the moon?".(The Week)(Brief Article)

National Review

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* "And what is it that will make it possible to spend 20 billion dollars of your money to put some clown on the moon?" So asked the great Tom Lehrer, pre-Neil Armstrong. "Well, it was good old American know-how, that's what. As provided by good old Americans like Dr. Wernher von Braun." The question now is, What made it possible to launch a 705-pound probe that took seven years to reach its destination and descend to the surface of Saturn's largest and most enigmatic moon, Titan? Well, as the ...

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