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James A. Michener, who wrote Tales of the South Pacific and many other stories of adventure, believed that exploration is essential to the human condition, both physically and spiritually.
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Roger D. Launius and Howard E. McCurdy, Imagining Space (San Francisco: Chronicle Books, 2001), p. 22.
William E. Burrows, Exploring Space: Voyages in the Solar System and Beyond (New York: Random House, 1990), pp. 420–21.
Evgeny Riabchikov, Russians in Space (Garden City: Doubleday, 1971), p. 99.
Carl Sagan, Pale Blue Dot (New York: Random House, 1994), pp. 227–28.
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Burrows, W.E. (2013). Transcendence and Meaning in Solar System Exploration. In: Launius, R.D. (eds) Exploring the Solar System. Palgrave Studies in the History of Science and Technology. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137273178_15
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