'The Moon, Mars, and beyond are all destinations.'
Still, it’s hard not to get caught up in the romance of NASA’s latest rocket launch. Case in point: so many people clamored to buy launch event tickets earlier this month that. More than 100,000 visitors are expected to make their way to Florida's Space Coast for the launch.
Lori Garver is a former NASA Deputy Administrator, serving under President Barack Obama from 2009 to 2013. In her new book, ‘Pete Paceley “I am incredibly happy for the people at NASA and the space companies that have worked hard, cut through the bureaucracy, managed thousands of requirements, and actually got this rocket built. And I'm eager to see it fly. But it remains difficult to celebrate a rocket that, in many ways, is responsible for a lost decade of US space exploration.
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