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Many space enthusiasts feel that there is no need to really answer the question of why we are going into space in the first place. “Because it’s there” is seen to be grounds enough. Konstantin Tsiolkovsky, a 19th-century Russian high school teacher who was the first to describe the scientific principles of rocketry as applied to space flight, penned a frequently quoted sentence: “Earth is the cradle of humanity, but one cannot live in the cradle forever.”
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Shipman, H.L. (1989). The Exploring Spirit. In: Humans in Space. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4899-6104-4_2
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