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style=3D'font-size:75%;color:#0D0D0D'>•NASA's
mission is to pioneer the future in space exploration, scientific discovery and aeronautics
research.
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do that, thousands of people have been working around the world -- and off of it -- for al=
most
50 years, trying to answer
some basic questions.
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style=3D'font-size:63%'>•President John F. Kennedy focused NASA and the nat=
ion on sending astronauts to the moon by the end of th=
e 1960s.
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style=3D'font-size:63%'>•Through the Mercury and Gemini projects, NASA developed the technology and skills it needed for =
the journey. On July 20, 1969, Neil Armstrong and Buzz=
Aldrin became the first of 12 men to walk on the m=
oon, meeting Kennedy's challenge.
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style=3D'font-size:78%'>•Complete the International Space Station and retire the Space Shuttle by 2010
•Begin robotic mi=
ssions
to the moon by 2008 and return people
there by 2020
•Continue robotic
exploration of Mars and the Solar System
•Develop a crew
exploration vehicle and other technologies required to send people beyond low Earth orbit.
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