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U.S. President Obama speaks on new plans for space exploration at Kennedy Space Center in Florida
U.S. President Barack Obama (C) tours the commercial rocket processing facility of Space Exploration Technologies, known as SpaceX, along with Elon Musk, SpacdeX CEO at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Cape Canaveral, Florida on April 15, 2010. President Obama visited the Kennedy Space Center to deliver remarks on the new course the administration is charting to maintain U.S. leadership in human space flight. UPI/Bill Ingalls/NASA

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With the lowest cost per flight in the world for a production rocket and superlative design reliability, (the Falcon family of rockets) has the potential to be the world leader in launches per year
Space Watch: History's moment of truth
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At the end of the day, it would have been a distraction
Space Race 2: Half-price rockets
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I don't think it's a tragedy that people can't have fun in space. People should be able to go if they want to, but it's no great tragedy if they can't. But I do think it is a great tragedy if humanity can't establish itself on another planet
Space Race 2: Half-price rockets
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If it's going to cost that much, humanity will never be in position to colonize a planet -- no way. That is at the heart of what is preventing us from making progress in space
Space Race 2: Half-price rockets
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The government should be a funder, not a doer of these activities
Space Race 2: Half-price rockets
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Oklahoma Governor Mary Fallin talks to victims from the May 20 tornado that hit Moore, Oklahoma, May 22, 2013. The EF-5 tornado cut a path of destruction approximately 17 miles by 1.3 miles wide and left 24 people dead. UPI/J.P. Wilson