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US space dominance in doubt 40 years after ‘Apollo 11’

AFP , WASHINGTON

“Manned space travel adds far more cost than is justified in terms of scientific return,” he said recently, mentioning the lower cost of sending robotic probes.

But events are planned around the US to mark today’s historic anniversary. Celebrations will be held from the Kennedy Space Center at Cape Canaveral, Florida, where the Apollo 11 mission blasted off to mission control at the Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas and at the Air and Space Museum in the US capital.

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