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“I think, historically… when we look back fifty years to this time, we won’t remember the experiments that were performed, we won’t remember the assembly that was done, we may barely remember any individuals. What we will know was that countries came together to do the first joint international project, and we will know that that was the seed that started us off to the Moon and Mars. Because then, I know, when we’re looking back from Mars, for example, it won’t be just the United States, or it won’t just be China or Russia: it will be an international mission. And it will have come out of the very fact that we’re doing the Inter­national Space Station today.’’