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"Rocket scientists agree that we have about reached the limit of our ability to travel in space using chemical rockets. To achieve anything near the speed of light we will need a new energy source and a new propellant. Nuclear fission is not an option."
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"I have found out that there ain't no surer way to find out whether you like people or hate them than to travel with them."
"I don't travel to learn about the world. I travel for the joy of traveling."
"A man must carry knowledge with him if he would bring home knowledge."
"The study of maps and the perusal of travel books aroused in me a secret fascination that was at times almost irresistible."
"Travel doesn't become adventure until you leave yourself behind."
"Don't talk about heaven if you've never been to Bali."
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"When you buy a gallon of gas, over 60 percent of the energy you pay for goes out the radiator in the form of waste heat? That's why you have a radiator in your car in the first place."
"It is clear that the nation that assumes stewardship of the Moon now will inherit stewardship of the galaxy in the coming millennium. I think the USA is ready for that challenge!"
"There is more He-3 energy on the Moon than we have ever had in the form of fossil fuels on Earth. All we have to do is to go there and get it."
"Our present nuclear fusion reactors are classified by the methods used to support the nuclear fusion reaction, which takes place at a temperature much hotter than the surface of the Sun."
"The 20th Century was the century of Aviation and the century of Globalization. The next century will be the century of Space."
"I have long felt that an investment by the Department of Energy of a million dollars a year for the next 30 years would pay a higher return than any other investment this country could ever make."
"Nearly all of our existing power sources are generators which use a heat cycle. This includes our coal, oil, and gas fired utilities, our automobiles, trucks, and trains, and even our nuclear fission utility power plants."
"This is no job for a UN committee. It needs the same kind of unwavering dedication and the kinds of people that got us the first nuclear submarine and the first man on the moon."
"We need the kind of leadership exemplified by President Kennedy to just do it! But we must do it as good stewards, aggressively exerting control over the moon. We can best do this by going there."
"France generates a significant part of its energy requirements from fission reactors and these have achieved a perfect safety record. We build ours all differently."
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