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		MichaelMoser123 on Jan 17, 2017 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Gene Cernan has died we wouldn't be in space at all if it weren't for the purpose of bragging.

MichaelMoser123 on Jan 18, 2017 [–]

Maybe space travel's biggest contribution so far is that it somehow helped to keep the cold war from going hot - as a substitute contest for the real war. RIP Gene Cernan.

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