By organizing the human spaceflight program with Mars in mind, NASA can develop a near-term investment and exploration agenda that gets us somewhere interesting without any additional commitment of funding.

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Mr. SCHWARTZ: Well, I think Stanley Kubrick took it somewhere interesting with "2001: A Space Odyssey, " which was really the most ambitious space travel movie to come out of the 1960s.

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There is something about being somewhere that is just interesting.

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At its basics, cloud computing represents the ability for software developers to cheaply and easily use the resources of masses of servers sitting somewhere in a data center (essentially supercomputers) to do something interesting or useful.

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