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Tags: Apollo program, Barack Obama, Cape Canaveral, Constellation program, Delta IV, Delta IV Heavy, Florida, International Space Station, low-Earth Orbit, NASA, Orion (spacecraft), Space Launch System, Space Shuttle program, United States

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