“Mars has always captured the human imagination for decades and decades, it’s always been the planet that everyone’s looking toward. Knowing it’s out there, it’s what drives everything that we do.”

—  Jessica Meir

Source: As quoted in [Kaplan, Sarah, Journey to Mars: Meet NASA astronaut candidate Jessica Meir, https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/kidspost/journey-to-mars-jessica-meir/2015/04/28/29d206a0-b11b-11e4-886b-c22184f27c35_story.html?utm_term=.573b6aa772fe, 26 April 2019, The Washington Post, April 28, 2015]

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