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When I was, maybe 10, a guy who worked for NASA came to talk to our school about the new "Space Shuttle." We asked what they were going to use it for, since they couldn't land it on the moon. He said they would use it to put "satellites" in space that would let us talk on phones without wires that were "about the size of my wallet." We all laughed at him. We asked when a base on the moon would be built.