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Poll: Americans Want NASA To Focus More On Asteroid Impacts, Less On Getting To Mars

American attitudes toward space exploration and NASA's priorities have changed ahead of the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 moon landing.

Americans are less interested in NASA sending humans to the moon or Mars than they are in the U.S. space agency focusing on potential asteroid impacts and using robots for space exploration. by The Associated Press and the NORC Center for Public Affairs Research released Thursday, one month before the 50th anniversary of the

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